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The 40” Ritchey, Chris Strobel

The 40” Ritchey

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In the very early 90’s when I was building mounts with Astro-Track Engineering (not the little tracking mount company AstroTrac) we were called by Mike Hoffert the owner and builder of this 40”, and the president of the Orange County Astronomers Association in the 70’s when I was a kid .. to work on the drive system .. specifically the declination .. which used a 22” Buyers worm gear. The scope sits in a two story roll off roof observatory which sits in the desert of far Southern California. Mike is standing in the middle.

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The 40” Ritchey, Chris Strobel