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Some ideas for a side-by side setup please
I have recently built a 127mm refractor for some wide-field imaging. It sits happily on my LXD75 (Meade) mount but I want to also mount a small MakCas (90mm) as a guide cam and am looking for some DIY ideas for a mounting system (either side-by-side or piggy-back). The Mak weights in at less than 2Kg with a Meade DSI so weight is not really an issue. The trick will be to devise a system of aiming the guidescope independently of the imaging scope. And as I see it, the problem will be the same whether the mount is side-by-side or whatever. I have seen glimpses of some little designs using threaded rods that will move the guide scope in two planes. That seems like a good idea. Does anyone have one of these and have any opinions about this as a design. Better still, can anyone drop some photos of such an arrangement?
peter
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