Tuesday, February 15, 2011

old dog

There ya go. Learn somethin' every day.

For some reason, I thought the gap between Polaris and the North Celestial Pole was increasing. Nope.

The polar axis 'scope has the inner circle etched at 48 arc-minutes. It was made in the late 80s or early 90s.

I found a little table in the EQ6 documentation.


year
xxxxx
distance
in arc-min
2000
45
2002
44
2004
44
2006
43
2008
43
2010
42
2012
42
2014
41
2016
40
2018
40
2020
39

So the 40' to 41' I was getting last night was in fact correct.

This made me go back and check if all that work I put into a custom Polaris reference guide plate was correct. Yes. But now I see it is out of date again! Ha ha.

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