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Originally Posted by m701f3
Hi Everyone,
I just picked up my new EQ8 today from Bintel in Melbourne but guess what? It’s raining. Anyway I hope the EQ8 turns out to be as good as it looks on paper. I will be mounting a C14 and C5 on it along with a guide scope and provision for a piggyback modified 5D MkII DSLR. Since the scopes were originally on fork mounts the C14 had to undergo some pretty major surgery to accept 3 Losmandy C14 dovetail plates. One serves as the primary mount, one to carry the C5 in piggyback and the DSLR mount and another for the guide scope. I took the opportunity to completely overhaul the OTA’s, covering all internal non-sliding, non optical surfaces with flocking material and adding socket head adjusting screws for the corrector plates, four for the C14 and three for the C5.
A Starizona Hyperstar lens and feather-touch focusing system is on the way from the US and after final conversion the system will be able to work at F1.9, F5.9, F10 and F11.
Hoping to get it all up and running in the next week or two.  |
congratulations looks like you have a big project ahead