Fifty Year Old Equatorial Mount Reworked and Restored

Описание: This follows the various procedures of faithfully restoring and rebuilding a 50 year old Star-Liner Equatorial Telescope Mount. Beginning with the arrival of an “Arizona Star-Liner Mount” in Feb 2021, quickly followed by disassembling of the mount, cleaning parts, replacing a faulty ball bearing, the building of a hefty pier with legs and wheels, the steps to make quality 10 inch setting circle, a set of counter weights for the declination axis, and, etc. The restored and rebuilt mount currently holds a 6 inch refractor for testing the mount and for making preliminary observations. A 10 inch true Cassegrain will soon replace the 6 inch refractor. I have owned a larger Star-Liner mount for 50 years and consider it to be an exceptional and sturdy mount now holding my favorite telescope: a 12 ½ inch true Cassegrain. I now have two quality Star-Liner mounts. Andrew R. Ochadlick Jr. received a Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA) and is a career physicist with university, government and industry R&D experience and teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level. He may be reached at [email protected] .