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Mike,
No its not a EQ platform.............maybe one day!!
The original mid-90's Celestron rocker box and ground board were quite poorly designed and constructed. The original ground board is now the rocker box base which rides on 3 industrial solid rubber wheels mounted on a new ground board. The wheels added another 100mm or so to the eyepiece height which makes for more comfortable observing. The whole mount is only so-so and is on borrowed time pending completing of the stringscope.
Home made dew heates are fitted to scope and finder eyepieces (1.5W each), finder objective (4W) and Telrad (1W). battery pack fitted to bottom rear of tube providing londitudinal and radial conterweight effect.
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