Accomplishing a Small Task
I had been complaining about an overly short dovetail bar on one of my telescopes so I finally tackled that problem this morning. I simply bolted a longer dovetail bar to the overly short dovetail bar. When I have a lot of weight on the back end of this telescope (ie, diagonal, heavy eyepiece, camera, etc), I run out of dovetail length to move the telescope forward enough in the mount's saddle to properly balance the telescope. Now, with this longer dovetail bar, I should have no problems with balance. I still need to figure out why the views are terrible through this particular little scope but that is a different problem for a different day when I can get outside with this telescope to refine the collimation. If refining the collimation does not help, I'll need to completely disassemble the telescope to see if I can spot any problems but I'd prefer to avoid that. If I do have to disassemble the whole scope and I still can't spot any problems, then the cause