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Hello Charles. I am away from home, so cannot get the right ray tracing... but : I do plan to have a small counterweight to keep the secondary assembly in line... basically on the outside of the

Sorry- and Christian. Your images are also legendary :-) Charles

Hi Benoit- have been a fan for years :-) I certainly don't doubt your ability to build stuff! But supporting a fairly heavy secondary 200mm back will be a challenge to avoid vibration and maintain

Christian, I am rebuilding my C-14 (will send photos) but decided that moving 200 mm forward would be a good tradeoff (also based on Oslo) between length and field of view. the nice thing with 200 mm

Of course one also has to support the secondary with spider vanesCharles Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

Dear All, I played around with OSLO to found out what is the optimal positioning of the Schmidt plate with the classic C14 design (ie. not relevant to the Edge-HD). It turned out that if the Schmidt

I’ll be on my way there next week when I get my flopp stoppers to give me mirror locks on the classic C14 installed as well.

There was a post not long ago with the same issue that was traced to a defective/wrong part (look for it). Bottom line: contact Starizona. Stan

This may have been recently posted but now I'm having problems installing my feather touch focuser on my CLASSIC C14 Non Edge. I waited nearly 2 months to receive the parts for this along with the

" sell the C14 as fast as possible if your imaging and get a Takahashi 106 " That advice is analogous to selling your Ferrari to get a Camry because it is too difficult to drive a high performance car

I have a reliable source and basically he stated to me sell the C14 as fast as possible if your imaging and get a Takahashi 106 ED instead. The more deeper I'm going down this rabbit hole it really

"anyway to lock the mirror with the supplied shipping screws you use when transporting the OTA" No. Don't even try. Flopstoppers help but they are not a total solution. I think you have it right: 1)

Get Ironwood Flop Stoppers. Look up on the web. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

Okay I have bought a LF Coma Corrector Focal Reducer from Starizona making the scope F7.2 at 2650mm now and have it attached to a Paramount ME Mount with a QSI 683 WSG-8. I was able to achieve focus

Follow up on feathertouch focuser for C14EdgeHD in Hyperstar mode. StarLight Instruments repaired under warranty and returned in less than a week...outstanding. I installed the feathertouch focuser

My experience with SCT's and guide scopes is as follows..... I have a C14-f5.5 and a 50mm guide scope/finder scope mounted directly to the telescope all on a AP1200 mount. I'm imaging with a SBIG

ap305rh = Astro-Physics 305 Ricardi Honders. Dave

where (what) is "RH"? I image remotely on occasion but my main site in in the coastal mountains near Santa Cruz CA. Not "super dark" but better than most suburbs (a bit less than mag19 / arcsec^2).

Yes that was 56,000 frames stacked. My software does it without taxing the computer; it runs in background and is not a bother. Usually it takes approximately 1/2 the time to stack as to acquire (e.g.

http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?tbody=999&vbody=399&month=8&day=4&year=2017&hour=00&minute=00&fovmul=1&rfov=0.001&bfov=10&porbs=1&showac=1 C14_EdgeHD@...> wrote: