Mark IV Setup Report

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

Well, I may not have broken anything yesterday, but I made up for it today.
 In order to have any place to look out the door, I had to set the Mark IV
on the floor.  In the process, I shook loose the string RA drive.  So I had
to fix it lying on the floor with my nose up against it.  Sigh, these bones
no longer like such operations, and besides I can't see well enough, so I
mostly do such operations by feel.  Not that my vision is all that bad, I
just seem to have no depth of field, and you need that to work on
mechanical stuff.  In the process of all the work, I broke a couple of
connectors.  

OK there was some progress.  I started running at 6 PM and when the clouds
moved in at 11PM I was really ready to quit.  I have been up and down those
spiral stars countless time.  I sure got my exercise for the day.  In the
end, I am pretty close.  I almost have it pointed to the pole, and I can
move around the focus.  Another night and I will be able to take some data.
  North was not very close to where I thought it was, so it took a long
time to get there.

All kinds of things just keep working.

Tom Droege