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Digital Angle Gauge for Setting Altitude

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test Member Registered: January 2009 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 40	Setting a precise altitude on a dobsonian is easy with a digital angle gauge. The gauge reports absolute angles (as well as relative) and is mounted magnetically on the scope tube. This gauge is rated to 0.1 degree precision.
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Wed January 28, 2009 3:08pm

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WOW AWESOME! I didn't know there is a digital angle gauge! that would make my polar alignment way easy! where can I get that beauty myself? Smile

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Bright Giants

Registered: January 2012
Location: Waterford Ireland
Posts: 462

Tue January 24, 2012 1:05pm

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There's an app for iPhone and iPad for this and you can callibrate it with a good spirit level, just a thought.

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Main Sequence

Registered: April 2010
Location: Wentzville, MO
Posts: 131

Fri May 11, 2012 8:36am

Rating: 9.00

What a great idea. I have one of these in my wood shop and use it all the time for setting my tooling up. I'd have never thought of using it for this purpose.

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