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Originally Posted by The_bluester
It is a fairly standard 10" F4, the upgraded amount to better mounting of the primary, an upgraded secondary and spider, a Moonlite focuser and a carbon fibre tube. For the mono I have the new 7 X 36mm filter wheel (which is currently attached to my OSC 2600) it works well and at least on my iOptron CEM70 mount the imbalance with the FW is hanging out to one side does not seem to upset it at all, and it clears all the moving parts.
I actually think that people obsess far too much about balance, there is an iOptron Facebook group I am on and it has endless rounds of questions and answers about balance and adding tiny little weights to 3D balance the scope mount so that no matter where you point it the thing is perfect and just sits there, but in my experience so long as it does not swing free and smash in to something when you release it or have such an imbalance that you can hear a difference when slewing one direction and the other, it makes no measurable difference to guiding.
Pics added of the setup.
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Nice set up and a pier mount too, very stable
Did you buy your carbon newt from Paul and Diego at Sidereal ?