From: "Mark Gaffney" <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: September 6, 2008 4:21:24 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: necessity of drift aligning....

Hi Milton, would a bout of drift aligning be necessary each time the scope is used or only 

when performing more difficult proceedures such as guiding & photography of DSOs? I`ve 

made several attempts at drift aligning since writing last, all using a reticle eyepiece as the 

camera seems one too many factors to control at the same time. No doubt I`ll try it 

eventually! I have a new C9.25 XLT OTA now but have had to postpone buying the colour Flea 

2 because of the added expense of this OTA over the C8. Hope the weather cleared up for 

your experiments with the Grasshopper at the dark sky site! Mark.