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My vintage Tasco 76mm & more recent 90mm Mak
Hi,
Here is a photo from the 2004 Venus transit. I have my vintage Tasco76mm f/15 refractor set up for solar projection. I bought this Tasco back in the mid 1980's second-hand from a colleague who was returning back to the US. The other scope is a Aspheric Optics 90mm f/13.3 Maksutov that I bought in HK about 10 years ago mounted on a piece of wood with my Sony Handycam. What is not so obvious is that the handycam is mounted on a Celestron #93804-A slow motion control, to allow the handycam to line up with the maksutov. The mount is a chinese version of the common EQ-3 - the manual version. I recorded the Venus transit from a carpark in Carlingford, NSW, Australia. Of course a tracking mount would be much better, but more on this later.
-John
Last edited by John0z; 05-12-2011 at 01:27 PM.
Reason: fix spelling, add slow motion control
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