Hi everyone,
I was hoping that someone well acquainted with the various types of saddles/mounting plates could help a newbie out a bit.
I've recently acquired an NEQ6 mount, Orion Awesome Autoguider package, Orion Narrow Side-by-Side Plate, and an "Adapter 1/4"-20 for Dovetail Mount" for my digital SLR. The idea behind this set up was to have a nice wide-field astrophotography set up (full-frame SLR with lens ranging from 14 mm to 200 mm) that I could then add a refractor to later.
All of the pieces arrived from Bintel this week but they don't fit
There are two problems:
1. The Orion Narrow Side-by-Side plate can't attached to the NEQ6 - it's far too narrow (only about half the width of the NEQ6 saddle!). My understanding is that the Orion side-by-side plate is a "Vixen" mount? What type of mount do I have on my (white) NEQ6? Would something like the following work?
http://www.telescope.com/Orion-Wide-...ate/p/7953.uts
2. The Orion Awesome Autoguider package comes with two mounting rings and a Vixen-style dovetail plate for piggyback mounting on a larger telescope. The dovetail will fit in my side-by-side plate, but not with the mounting rings attached (because the bolts protrude below the bottom of the dovetail plate - see the main pic at the link below). Any suggestions for how to solve this?
http://www.telescope.com/Orion-Aweso...ge/p/24770.uts
I'm rather confused by the various mounting plates... especially when the product specs on websites rarely say what they support!
Thanks for any help you can offer.