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Subject: Re: [M]: Guidescope for 10" LX200
From: Ed Stewart
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Jul 29 03:53:59 1997
Martin Ingold wrote:
>I would like to mount an 80mm refractor on my 10" LX200. Now I'm
>wondering if there are any existing mounting plates or rings for that?
>Do I have to add counterweights? What kind of counterweights do you
use?
>I'm sure that a lot of you out there use a Guidescope.
>And most important how did you mount in on your scope.
Martin--many of your concerns are addressed in the Astrophotography link
in the Mapug Topical Archive and the button for a 2-D Counterweight
Design at the URL below. If someone provides the sources, such as
Losmandy's URL, I'll add them to the Archive when I update it next week.
--
Ed Stewart, Austin, TX <stargzer@austin.cc.tx.us>
Topical Archive of Mapug (Meade Adv. Products Users Group)
Tripod Sled, Accessory/Alignment Shelves, Equatorial Wedge, Wedge
Stablizer, DobDriver II Installation & 2-D Counterweight designs for
Meade and other telescopes available at:
<http://www.austin.cc.tx.us/astro-ES/AstroDesigns/>