Hi John, Also check out Chris Vedeley's LX50 superwedge homemade
Stabilizer. I built one for mine and is it stable!!! Bueno Dan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [M]: Re: ? about LX200 Wedge


> Hi John:
> I assume you want it for astrophotography. I got a smaller wedge (I think
it
> was labeled for the 10 inch LX200) when I got my 8 incher LX. I soon found
> that it was much too shaky for serious photography. When I moved up to the
> superwedge, most of the shakiness went away (there was still a lot in the
> forks, but very little in the wedge). Unfortunately, my attempts at
guiding
> the LX, using an ST-4 as the guider, were unsuccessful, so I'm using
German
> equatorials now. However, many people have good results with the
> fork-mounted LX on a Meade superwedge, a Milburn, or a ??? (blanking on
the
> name) wedge.
> Hope that helps...
> Bert
>
> Bert Katzung
> www.astronomy-images.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Thursday, 15 February, 2001 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [M]: Re: ? about LX200 Wedge
>
>
> > Hi Bert,
> >
> > Thanks for the advice, but can you elaborate on this a little bit? Is
> there
> > something I should know about the regular wedge vs. the super?
> >
> > --- John M. Burton
> > Tranquillity Base Today
> > http://members.aol.com/TranBaseDiorama/TBTodayList.htm
> >
> >snip<
>

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