PRICE DROP Celestron Ultima 9.25" telescope/mount/tripod/AAM hardware
9.25"/235 mm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.
The Ultima 9.25 was the largest portable Schmidt Cassegrain in production. The electronic system includes Periodic Error Correction (PEC) for pinpoint star images on long exposures. The worm gear drive has four tracking rates and a 4x sidereal slewing rate for extra versatility when guiding astrophotos with the hand controller.
The following are included:
Celestron Ultima 9.25" telescope (USA).
Celestron right ascension motor drive (DC servo quartz drive).
Celestron equatorial wedge with adjustable metal tripod and deluxe latitude adjuster.
Meade 1.25" eyepiece holder (Japan).
Celestron 1.25"/26 mm Plossl multicoated (Taiwan).
Celestron Star diagonal 1.25" W/MC (Japan) visual back
Celestron quick release finder bracket 50 mm (Japan).
Celestron 9x50 Finder (China).
Advanced Astro Master (AAM) hardware: optical encoder 4000, optical encoder 2160, DEC Encoder bracket with screws and coupling screw, DEC and RA cable, spacer and other screws and Allen keys needed to install the encoder.
Telescope instruction manual plus a manual for the 'advanced astro master' hardware installation.
Tripod and wedge combined weight is 15 kg.
Telescope weight is 20 kg.
I am located in Sydney and buyer would have to pick up or arrange freight.
Looking for $1850 but since no response so far I have dropped the price to $1350
Last edited by joerg; 28-01-2012 at 03:18 PM.
Reason: Price drop to $1350
totally new to this i really want to look for comets asteroids do some CCD work
can you add a CD to this if so what sort of starting cost
am looking at a new CPC 800 GPS