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Originally Posted by robz
Trevor, ......................please....... ......please............repaint that ''Doeskin'' coloured meade mount to ''Telescope white'' or ''Skywatcher black''!!!   |
Hi Rob,
The GEM is certainly not made by Meade or in fact bare any resemblance to anything made on a production line. It was designed and built by me a very long time ago and works very well. There is much more to it than is visible to the eye and it was painted with whatever I could find in my shed at the time.
It is fitted out with dual axis drives made by Peter Mellander of Anssen Technologies, Peter also did the electronics for the drive corrector and the whole system has been super reliable over the last 15 yrs or so.
Funnily enough, the colour of the mount doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on the quality of the data produced by the scope, at least that I have noticed thus far.
Of course I am holding out high hopes for what this scope will produce now with the primary from Mark.
Regards
Trevor