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Well had a very quick first light. The mount holds the ED120 quite easily. With the 24mm Panoptic in place, when I give the scope a very solid tap, damping time is about 6 to 8 seconds. However, as I have the DC motor Moonlite focuser, this does eliminate the need for touching the scope during focusing.
As part of first light, did a quick view of Jupiter with the 24mm Panoptics, 13mm Nagler and a 6mm TMB Planetary. At 150x, Jupiter was quite steady in the mount, then a slight nudge to recentre.....no problems.
There is adjustment to the amount of tension in both alt and az and this seems to work quite well.
I tried to "push over" the scope, but the stainless steel tripod is quite stable.
Absolutely no problem moving the whole mount and scope in one go. In fact, a very 'balanced' feel to it.
If I had to fault it, probably the fact that there is only a single screw retaining against the dovetail.
But all in all, a very positive first light!!
Cheers,
Daniel
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