vinculum
19-09-2009, 02:00 PM
Howdy all,
I just bought a brand spanking new mount at Bintel, it's a Skywatcher NEQ6 Wide, to replace my LXD 55 EQ4.
I've mounted my 10" f/4 Schmidt Newtonian on top with a Losmandy dovetail plate. Also purchased another counter weight to balance the beast out.
Set her up last night out in the common area at townhouse, did a rough align to the SCP & levelled pretty precisely & then booted up Synscan controller entered in all relevant information then did a three Star alignment. Deepsky objects were slightly out but I need to tweak the latitude bolts & my polar alignment would of been off but with PAE it recalibrated for that area of the sky! it was amazing!
What can I say WoW!...she runs like a dream extremely happy with the stability & slew movement on both R.A. & Dec they slew smoothly with no hiccups, she's a tad noisy only thing I did notice was initial slew & I get a slight clicking sound & tiny vibration, it does this as it slews as well, in the tripod leg in R.A. but it doesn't affect slew at all & looking through the eyepiece I see no vibration at all.
So what are you hints/tips if any, I've read some great posts on how to align the axis's with the OTA on this forum, great stuff!
Eventually I'll get a guide scope & digital SLR delve into some serious Astrophotography, just need to save some more cash up for that. I've been in amateur Astronomy for a long time also a member of SASI.
Thanks great forums by the way!
I just bought a brand spanking new mount at Bintel, it's a Skywatcher NEQ6 Wide, to replace my LXD 55 EQ4.
I've mounted my 10" f/4 Schmidt Newtonian on top with a Losmandy dovetail plate. Also purchased another counter weight to balance the beast out.
Set her up last night out in the common area at townhouse, did a rough align to the SCP & levelled pretty precisely & then booted up Synscan controller entered in all relevant information then did a three Star alignment. Deepsky objects were slightly out but I need to tweak the latitude bolts & my polar alignment would of been off but with PAE it recalibrated for that area of the sky! it was amazing!
What can I say WoW!...she runs like a dream extremely happy with the stability & slew movement on both R.A. & Dec they slew smoothly with no hiccups, she's a tad noisy only thing I did notice was initial slew & I get a slight clicking sound & tiny vibration, it does this as it slews as well, in the tripod leg in R.A. but it doesn't affect slew at all & looking through the eyepiece I see no vibration at all.
So what are you hints/tips if any, I've read some great posts on how to align the axis's with the OTA on this forum, great stuff!
Eventually I'll get a guide scope & digital SLR delve into some serious Astrophotography, just need to save some more cash up for that. I've been in amateur Astronomy for a long time also a member of SASI.
Thanks great forums by the way!