On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 06:13 PM, marc@... wrote:
What payload do you have on the mount? I'm talking about C11 type load here for myself. I'll weigh the Takahashi CN-212 and see. I'd be interested to hear people experience with heavier loads.
PS: Just weighted it.? It's 13kg with Camera.?
Mine is pretty light. From the Bar up, I'm at?7.937866 Kilo's (17.5 pounds) My stuff is small, Deep Space Objects, Nebula specific, OSC Atik Infinky camera. ;^)
Just an Orion ED80T CF telescope, which is a mere 2.49 Kilo's dry. All the rest of the "fat" is my added on stuff. LOL!
Pretty fly weight, compared to you and most others. Bottom dweller here. Poor Boy Astro. ;^)
I can't see me with a beautiful scope like your Tak. I think the CFO might clip my nuts if something that nice showed up.
It looks like you have plenty of D-bar to balance with the RAEXT. So No worries, Mate.
Once you are ready, try doing a no meridian flip run. My very first one went . From eastward to near mount crash westward. I got the deepest image ever.
And all because Scott managed to make the Meridian flip obsolete.
But I did get the RAEXT to divide the load up into manageable pieces.
I had no second thoughts about balance, I trust Scott took that into consideration. And I had to rebalance after I changed to "Piggy Backed" with my Guide Scope.
I honestly think you will really like having the RAEXT. No need to dismount your weights anymore. And when you assemble, all lands in balance.
Still drooling over your Tak. ;^)
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