[gregbradley]

Yes it was a bit of a bummer. But hopefully the part arrives next week before I take it back to my dark site. Ordered a dewbuster with temperature sensors and a dew-not 16 inch dew heater. Not so much to stop the optics dewing for imaging but around dawn when a bit of dew formed on the optics and to prevent dew stains on the optics which may be hard to clean as its enclosed.

I am thinking this scope may be an awesome mosaic scope. 12 inch F3.8 probably means a good SNR on a 1.5 hour LRGB image so I could get 6 to 8 panels done in a few days using the Proline 16803. I also got some brass shiming material from a steel supplier to pack out the Proline and get it 100% square with the Honders. I think there may have been flex in the filter wheel which was missing 2 screws now corrected. I think everything has to be perfect to match this scope's optics. F3.8 is a hard task master.

Greg.