Maybe we can still do this before the weather turns cold. Let's keep it on the back burner for a while. When Ann and I did our test, my laser was mounted on a small, home-made 50mm refractor on a tripod. I used a 5mm illuminated reticle eyepiece with a 2.8X Barlow to facilitate precise aiming. I aligned the crosshairs with the laser dot at a distance of about 2 city blocks and this was good-enough for long distance aiming. Of course you can't see the dot when the target is several miles away because of it's large size at that distance, but the crosshairs still show the target area. Something like my set-up could easily be carried to higher ground, it only weighs a few pounds. On 8/7/07, Dunn, David <david.dunn@albertsons.com> wrote:
One other problem with the test is that the folks at Antelope Island expanded the parking lot that we use. It is now very large and flat. This is nice for spreading us out and giving us a little elbow room at the star parties. In the process, they made it so that we can't see over the ridge (Unless we climb BOBs ladder). We wouldn't have been able to use the telescopes to help point without moving them up to the ridge.