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Balancing a GSO RC8.
I picked up one of these scopes on Saturday and had trouble getting balance with a camera and filter wheel hanging out the back. To trial it, I had it on a SBS plate with a tak FS60 as a guider and we had to hang a counterweight off the front of the RC8 and add a 3rd weight to the mount and it still seemed a bit dodgey to me.
Back at home in daylight I tried again and replaced the front counter weight with a stellarvue 60 guider, removed the SBS plate and came back to 2 weights on the mount shaft. It seems to be balanced but haven't had it outside like this yet.
I was wondering how longer term users of this arse heavy scope are balancing them?
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