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Actually the mount that comes with is okay. I've had mine apart when I re-greased it and it is very well made. I found none of the metal burrs and shavings Jeff DeTray talks about polishing away on

As the other posters have pointed out, the GM8 is really a tad undersized for this OTA. It's not just the weight, it's also the long tube, which increases the moment as well as creates a wind sail. I

"Jeffrey D. Gortatowsky" wrote: I use an MN61 6 inch Mak-Newt on a G-11 and I have the same problem with the tube being long. I've found, however, that if I carefully balance the tube in whatever

I bought an AP130 EDT f/8 on a GM8 that used the G11 dovetail plate. The mount is barely adequate for that setup. Breezy conditions made it shake pretty good and rap test settling times were in the 5

Hi Ray: On the encoder resolution question, I e-mailed Scott Losmandy and he said to use 4096 for the Losmandy LSC hardware. Works for me (now that I have done the "90 degree setting"

I went through the same decision making process a couple of months ago. Scott Losmandy said that the GM8 would handle the 6" refractor without any problem but recommended the G-11 saddle plate for

Hi Ray: The question of torqueing something out of true worried me when I started this alignment business but the pointing with the system "as-is" was so bad that I felt I had to do something. My

Stephen at lthuedk@... is using the same setup to do photography, you can see his pictures

Hi I think the G11 would be more stable. It can hold up to 60 lbs and will allow you to upgrade to a larger scope in the future without worring too much (just get another dovetail plate along with

I have a 6" Skywatcher, I think about purchase a GM8 system. will GM8 handle this scope well? the OTA weight 20 lbs. Plan to use CCD camera for Deepsky. How high the tripod with fully extend ?

I have the Sky Commander with the Losmandy DSC and the manual states 4000. I did not believe that number and entered 4096. It has worked just great. With a reasonable drift align (no movement for 5

Yep, I see the 4096 on the web site. The copy of the manual I have has "4000 nominal" in the same spot. The encoder housing is the nicely anodized aluminum and matches the finish of the rest of the

Ray, If it is the Losmandy DSC you will need the 4096. The Losmandy unit is really the Sky Engineering Sky Commander DSC which is usually installed on Dob's, which as I said before uses the

Thanks, Don. I'm buying this mount used and the encoders were installed by the current owner. All the labels say Losmandy so I'm going to try the 4096 setting. If that doesn't work, I'll follow

Ray, Every encoder I've seen has had a label on the back of the encoder housing that shows the counts per revolution and also the wiring diagram for the pins. If your using the metal housed encoder,

Hi Gregory, Trying the procedure you recommend had already occurred to me and I plan to give it a shot next time out. Based on feedback from this group I also need to reset the encoder resolution

Thanks, Bert. The same procedure is outlined in my manual. Now let me ask another question, how do you go about shimming a scope using the Losmandy dovetail system to achieve the results the manual

Hi Jay: Sorry, getting my axes mixed up: Should have said: I moved the *RA* axis with the scope to the west so that the *dec* shaft & counterweight bar were horizontal (by carpenter's level, the first

Ray, When you centered on vega and hit enter, do the DSCs tell you anything like the Lumincon DSC's? ie warp factor =0 Also, after centering on vega, hitting enter, then asking the DSCs to guide you

Bert, I don't understand flipping the scope horizontal in DEC..(move it in dec around left (right) how much?? What about RA, just leave it verticle (ie, weights straight down) Thanks :) CS Jay