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Originally Posted by revx
I just wanted to verify a couple things….
I found this site – Make your own Inclinometer – on another thread (or maybe even a different forum) and made myself one. .... |
That's a neat design for the inclinometer. I've seen the string/protractor thing before, but not with the sighting tube.
I use a regular hardware store inclinometer for most things. I also have one of those surveying transit things, ie telescope with az/el angle measurements, but it is too much work to get it set up and leveled. I also have a combination compass/inclinometer, which has a mirror to allow you to see the inclinometer while sighting, but it's not very easy to read. THere is a gadget made just for sat that does this, but it's real expensive. So I usually just try to use the hardware store thing, and sight over the edge, and then try to keep the thing stable while moving around the side to read the angle, which isn't very accurate.
With the above, once you've sighted the angle, you could put your finger on the string to lock it in place so you can accurately read the angle. Nice idea.
However, I thought of another very accurate way of doing it. I have a telescope/spotting scope on a tripod. I could just aim the telescope, lock it down, then put a regular hardwars store inclinometer on the top of the telescope. Actually, my old telescope, which was astronomical already had the elevation scale, but I would have had to level that before using it, plus it weighed 100 lbs or something with it's cast iron mount.
But I like the simplicity of the above.