Sunday, August 27, 2006

cleaned eyepieces

Carefully following instructions that I found at Cloudy Nights, working gently and slowly, using a bunch of supplies from my camera equipment, I cleaned the 26mm and 18mm eyepieces. I also cleaned the mirror diagonal and one very dusty end of the 2x Barlow.

The 26mm was a mess (from those crazy kids at Mosport)! Now it looks spectacular.

Unfortunately, I resorted to using isopropyl rubbing alcohol with only 70% alcohol. That's all that was in the house. Perhaps I should have waited... An hour or so later, while stocking up at Shoppers Drug Mart, I found a bottle of Life Brand isopropanol with 99%!

Can't wait to use them!

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