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Had a look at your site, love the set up.. I have the same bintel 12 inch and long for the day I can mount it with my two current guide scopes. I like where the drive motor is placed for RA that seems sensible and I dont know why others dont follow this design. I thought that there was a lot of light bouncing around in those tubes the thing that surprised me with the 300mm was the relatively poor contrast. I use a "light tube" extention on my scopes. A tube in the case of the 6 inch scope it is a tube 8 inches in diameter about 2.5 feet long with 8 baffles, this goes as an extention to the scope and dramatically improves contrast for me at my site. I came up with the idea to eliminate stray star light getting into the tube. I also noticed the focuser will not travell in far enough for fotos.. It will if you use a 3x barlow but on a dob mount only Moon shots are achievable. Great site great work great equipment.
alex
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