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Old 07-06-2014, 08:51 AM
julianh72 (Julian)
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Originally Posted by traveller View Post
The old Nexstar 8 tripod is very light weight, luckily Celestron SCTs are lighter than Meade for the same size. Still, the 8SE was very "undermounted". I sold my mount in favour of an EQ mount.
I wish I kept it now, as it would make a good mount for widefield DSLR work.
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I put my EQ mount on the SLT tripod at the same time as I put the SLT mount on the EQ tripod legs. As you say, it makes a perfectly good tracking mount for DSLR imaging.
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