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Old 23-11-2018, 03:11 PM
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ĢHi Bojan
What you have is not anything to do with a Meade unit, although I do have a LXD 55 that has a dud hand box.
I dont know what brand ot is but I guess you could say Celestron because it came with a 150 mm refractor that is a Celestron.
All I need is RA drive as the dec has been removed and replaced with a ply unit to mount the camera and dec adjustment is simply down to moving the camera to the target object and screwing the base mounting screw to hold the camera at the appropriate angle.
As it is for wide field with short exposure so dec tracking is not required.
There is a photo earlier here showing the idea.
So all it has to do is turn at the appropriate speed on RA. Dec is fixed or rather removed (see photo)
I figure with good PA and short exposure the unit should be great for wide field.
The photo above shows a one camera ply mounting unit but I have since made one that holds two cameras...which I cant photograph as it is in Sydney...but it is just a box sortta thing.
I took the dec off to reduce weight and make the unit easy to manage.
I dont need buttons or even an on off switch as the power can be cut off when I take the clips off the battery.
Alex

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