Saturday, June 15, 2024

Grab and Go Astronomy

The idea is thst you can pick up and carry your telescope and mount outside in one operation.  This means,  especially as you age, a pretty light combination of telescope and mount.
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I have not had time and climate to verify that the drive was doing an adequate job of tracking.  The answer is yes.

Theoretically,  I could have carried the whole assembly out as one piece but the Televue-85 is a very expensive piece of glass.  So I took the mount out separate and attached thr scope.  It is not as free from vibration from thr ground as a more solid mount and tripod would do.

The temptation is to make ScopeRollers for it, but a Vixen SP mount would be more stable..


1 comment:

  1. Sockets for the feet you can attach to the concrete? Or even something as simple as drilling some holes/divots for the tripod feet to sit in?

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