As usual, absolutely fantastic service from Steve Massey at
www.myastroshop.com.au
Placed the order 3:30 Thursday afternoon and opened the door this morning and there is was sitting on the front step. What service.
OK first impressions. It is different from my original one. There is no 1.25" adapter connector on the webcam side. You will need either
one of these if your camera has a C/CS thread or one of these if you have a ToUcam style camera
"ToUcam T thread adapter" (look down the page a bit) or as Eternal has pointed out a
Female T thread to 1.25" female adapter.
Ok some details. Aluminium construction with the label BOSMA stamped on the bottom of the mirror housing. Nice positive action on the mirror. No obvious blemishes or chips on either the mirror or housing. The two T thread adapters screwed on snuggly with no looseness or slack in the thread, screwing tight up to the mirror housing.
While I'm yet to try it out there is something that I am very happy about. Apart from the extension tube being removeable it will also take an eyepiece into a sliding sleeve for variable eyepiece project. Soon turn that 600mm scope into a 2 meter guidescope
The only thing I'm not keen on is that the 1.25" male adapter that slots into the telescope appears to be hard plastic. Shame that the rest of it is alluminium and the nose piece that everything hangs off is plastic. Though to be fair it is thick and feels solid. It is also threaded but not to accept filters unfortunately. So if you want to use an IR or UV/IR blocking filter you will need to use the standard 1.25" webcam adapter and not the T adapter.
If the weather ever clears (maybe I should stop buying things
) I will give it a field test over the next few weeks.