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Originally Posted by alistairsam
Hi Jo,
That looks great. very nice work.
yes, goto mounts are very handy. does this mount have an autoguider port or support guiding?
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Yes, it's a pretty smart mount, 358,000 object data base, with GPS, permanent PEC, electronic balancing, belt drives, even got a port for dome control!
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Looking at the pics, if you keep the focuser to one side, it'll end up in odd positions when slewing to different parts of the sky and you'll have an issue with balancing the weight.
is it balanced with the eyepiece?
if you had the find on the other side, that could even it out.
I believe this is for visual use?
its common to have the focuser facing down as that way, balancing in RA is not an issue.
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I was planing on putting the guide scope on the other side to balance it, if the focuser is not on the side were would it go
I could have it facing down but wouldn't that make it harder for visual? Or it that just for imaging. The scope will probably be mainly used for visual, but fully capable of imaging as well.
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second thing, do you have plans to make the two fasteners removable or adjustable? reason being you'll have to rotate the tube at some point if you use a different eyepiece that's lighter or heavier or even a camera.
so you'd need to loosen the fasteners, rotate the tube with the camera and then fasten it. I noticed both sides have bolts?
you would also need to loosen it if the OTA needs to be slid up or down again due to differing weights with cameras and eyepieces.
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The camera (1100d) is pretty much exactly the same weight as the 24mm eyepiece so I've just had it balanced for them, the other eyepieces are lighter but it's hardly noticeable. I did a good nights observing with it in the same configuration as in the pictures and with a small step stool I was able to comfortable observe everywhere in the sky, this is how I generally observe anyway so it seemed OK.
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I like the idea of two holes for the mirror cell.
Nice work
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Yeah, that worked out every well
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Edit: one other thing you could do is add a wing nut and a nyloc nut underneath it to the collimation bolts.
that way, you won't need a tool to adjust the bolts. you never know when a re-collimation is needed in the field.
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I'm thinking of making some fancy nobs for it, just not sure how to attach them to the bolt heads.
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Any provision for mounting a dew controller? that'll also be required to keep eyepieces and/or the finder objective dew free. else its a nightmare cause things dew up very fast.
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Have had no thoughts about dew heaters, so thanks for reminding me
I'll see how that can fit in.
Cheers, and thanks a lot
Jo
