New Look for Old Telescope
I 'm still mending a sprained MCL in my right knee so I'm still not really accomplishing much on my To-Do list. Every now and then, however, I feel halfway decent and am able to jump into a small little project at the kitchen table. This still needs to be short because I need to keep changing positions... no sitting for a long period of time, no standing for a long period of time. This keeps the size of these occasional projects on the very small side. Plus, the longer I work on any project, the more likely I am to do something stupid with my knee. The last thing I want at this point is to be set back to square one yet again. I have this old Celestron 70mm refractor telescope that, in recent years, I adapted to a different type of mount. In order to do that upgrade, I needed to remove a bunch of mounting hardware that was bolted through the optical tube. This hardware wasn't needed and was in the way of the new mounting cradle ...