Generator

Finally got the generator back from the shop. Can't complain about the price, they fixed and tested it for $48 out the door. It was just the brushes. I knew the brushes needed replacing but I didn't feel like working on it in the middle of winter, and it seemed to me like the field regulator circuitry might have been bad too. Took 6 weeks but apparently they got the wrong parts the first time.

The telescope mount works

And damn, is it cold out. 5*F isn't the best conditions to learn to use a new computer guidance system, especially since it uses an LCD screen, and after the first 3 minutes I couldn't read anything on it, as it side-scrolls and the LCD was frozen and it all just became a big blur.

It took 4 tries to get it aligned, the final one worked because I finally realized that it thought it was in Newark and changed it to Ann Arbor. This mount was sold to someone in NJ before me, the invoice with his name on it was still in the box. I'm not really bugged by that, since I got it for $25 less than anyplace else had it. I may write a letter to him and ask why he returned it.