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Old 19-10-2010, 03:04 PM
adman (Adam)
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Talking dancing in the MoonLite...

just received my new moonlite focuser - have been wanting one of these for ages. It was unpacked and installed within a matter of minutes - no problems. Looks great - love the finish of it. I will be able to move my mirror back down the tube too by the looks of it due to the low profile, but for now I have installed it with one of the spacers. The motor drive works well - two main buttons, one for each direction (holding both down gives you maximum speed in each direction), and two knobs - one for pulse width, and one for pulse interval - gives you pretty much any speed you want.

I also notice from some included blurb that you can now get a USB adapter to allow focus control from your PC - might have to look at that down the track.

Putting a moonlite on one of these scopes is a bit like putting lipstick on a pig (it's even the right colour!) - but it removes a major source of frustration for me, and I can use it on my next scope....

Now just waiting for my catseye collimation stuff to arrive. USPS tells me that it has left the USA - so shouldn't be long.

You can see from the pictures below the other mod I have recently completed - a set of Adam's Knobs - total cost about 8 bucks from Bunnings/Jaycar.

Adam
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