[ChrisV (Chris)]

This question might sound stupid but I am relatively new to this. I recently bought a C8-advancedGT on this website. It's brilliant !! And it came with a whole bunch of interesting stuff.

The only thing is the focuser which is a bit of a pain - wobbles and hard to set. Fortunately the scope came with not one, but 2 motorised focusers.
- a celestron motor focuser which I have used and is OK.
- a moon lite focuser. I can't try this out yet as it didn't come with the controller.

My question is about the moonlite focuser. I emailed moonlite about it and they got back to me within a few hours !!! They said it was a fairly old one that they used to package with Rigel DC hand controller. They said I could

1. contact Rigel and get their dc controller.

2. Or "if I sent it to them they could update it. Switch the shaft and parts around it to install the new DC motor with hand controller - that way it will have the nice slip clutch system". $US190 plus delivery.

Can anyone tell me whether the moon lite focuser is much better than the celestron focuser at least for what I am using it for (just doing visual now). And is the update option better than getting the Rigel controller. And what is this "nice slip clutch" ?

Thanks, Chris.