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Balancing a SCT on a wedge
I'd be grateful to hear people's best suggestions for balancing a wedge-mounted LX200. I'm buying a 2d Bintel counterweight that seems well enough suited to a scope that is used primarily in the fork-mount in an Alt-Az configuration. But what about when the scope is being used equatorially on a wedge?
I find it hard enough to figure out how to set up my LX200GPS for southern hemisphere - but assuming that I can get that figured out sonn enough, I want to start putting a new guidescope on it and then a 300D. Thiose each add weight on a different axis and my question is whether a 2d system is workable with a wedge or whtehr it tends to limit the movement of the scope in Dec or RA because it bangs into things.
Peter
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