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Originally Posted by icytailmark
Would it be possible to put my 12" Skywatcher Collapsible Tube on a EQ Mount?
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Hi Mark
See this link here:
http://www.myastroshop.com.au/produc...sp?id=MAS-040J
Skywatcher already makes an 12" with the NEQ6Pro Goto mount ready for it with the correctly styled beefier saddle and 12" OTA rings and it looks like the better deal to go with if you have not yet got the collapsible 12" SW
I own a 12" Collapsible SW myself but I had to buy a Losmandy G11 mount as well which can handle the weight of that 21kgs of whole OTA - I am in the process of producing curved blocks to mount a beefed-up D-saddle for it - I tried to get the 12" SW rings originally but was told they would cost more than $300 for the pair !
The posted link to Andy Booth's mod for the EQ6+12" collapsible is where you can get some idea as to where the balance point is but if you want to then do astro-imaging you must consider a way for the balance point to move further forward (well past the top edge of the bottom tube!!) which will be creating more dramas for the mechanical stability of the whole set-up - Andy himself stated that as it stands with just the way he's done it that is very unstable in the presence of wind/breeze - from that it can be inferred that the set-up with the normal EQ6 is very marginal at best
Cheers
Bill