AlienRatDog
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 07/15/05
Posts: 1221
Loc: Ann Arbor
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The suspense is too much!
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Abe -- the poor PhD student
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12" LX200GPS-SMT w/UHTC
Celestron CPC800XLT
I guess I am a CAT man again..
Nagler 31mm, 17mm, 13mm, 12mm, 9mm, 2.5x Powermate
Explore Scientific 6.7mm 82deg eyepiece
12X50 Binoculars
Understanding wife
One beautiful daughter, Emma-Rose (born 7-29-2009)
Twin boys (cats), half Persian/half Alley Cat but all Vermin!
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Mike Harvey
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/04
Posts: 718
Loc: Orlando, FL.
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And still no pictures. 
Evidently, anything I try to send with a photo, is NOT GOING THROUGH!
I sent a rather long "First Light" report late last night and it included a picture. It never posted!
Now, I've tried re-sending the photo twice and it never shows up.
I'll try to recreate the 'review' as soon as I can but business has me slammed today.
Anybody know if there's any way for me to retrieve that report from last night? I don't see any option for "My Postings" or anything like that in my "Home".
???
Mike
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LLEEGE
Running out of Oxygen
Reged: 03/03/05
Posts: 9790
Loc: Cloud-chester,NY
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If you submitted it to the review forum, it could take a while.
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"Okay! You draw the straws. I'm-a taking the parachute."
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Mike Harvey
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/04
Posts: 718
Loc: Orlando, FL.
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If you submitted it to the review forum, it could take a while.
Nope...posted (or tried to!) it to this thread.
Mike
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Mike Harvey
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/04
Posts: 718
Loc: Orlando, FL.
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One more try with photo.
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Mike Harvey
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/04
Posts: 718
Loc: Orlando, FL.
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OK....I'm guessing I didn't reduce the photo enough and it killed the whole "First Light" post.
I'll try to re-do it tonight.
Dang-it. It was so much better when it was fresh in my mind!
Mike
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skj
super member
Reged: 04/13/07
Posts: 130
Loc: McKinney, Texas
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Great looking rig... looks extra heavy sitting by that big crack in the drive way! I can't wait to read your detailed report...
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Steve Johnson
Celestron C100ED Refractor
Celestron C6 SCT
SVP Mount on homemade tripod
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plav1959
super member
Reged: 05/10/07
Posts: 164
Loc: Central Florida
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Congrats Mike! Can I borrow it?
Paul
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Paul
14.5" StarStructure f/4.3 with AN/SC
Orion 10" Newt
William Optics Megrez 90
Orion SkyView Pro 8EQ
ETX125
Celestron CGEM mount
Celestron ASGT mount
Mallincam Color Hyper Plus
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CHASLX200
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/29/07
Posts: 2097
Loc: Tampa area Florida
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Looks like the head could handle my 8" F8 Newt, but the tripod could be a problem with my long OTA bumping into it.
Now if they made a pier then maybe i would go for it.
Chas
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Yedgy
professor emeritus
Reged: 07/22/08
Posts: 610
Loc: Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Great looking rig... looks extra heavy sitting by that big crack in the drive way!
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The Universe is an awesome place. I'm glad I live here.- Takahashi FS-60CB
- Takahashi FSQ-106EDXIII
- HyperTuned Atlas EQ-G
- Mountain Instruments MI-8P pier
- Spectrum-Enhanced Canon EOS 450D
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LLEEGE
Running out of Oxygen
Reged: 03/03/05
Posts: 9790
Loc: Cloud-chester,NY
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One more try with photo.
Jeez, you haven't had it for a day and you've already got the cords tangled! 
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"Okay! You draw the straws. I'm-a taking the parachute."
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slitherjef
sage
Reged: 09/08/04
Posts: 201
Loc: Denver CO
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Looks nice! Think it will hold a C80ed, meade 6" newt, a 20D camera and a orion starshoot autoguider, or would that be pushing it?
Can't wait to hear a detailed report and congrats on the new mount!
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-Allan
My Flickr photo page / My Blog (new)
Member of the Denver Astronomical Society
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DaemonGPF
Post Laureate
Reged: 03/22/08
Posts: 4040
Loc: New Mexico
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I'm mostly curious about the new polar alignment routine it has. If you guys haven't already, you should flip through the manual on the Celestron site. The features sound phenominal.
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-Josh
http://cleardarksky.com/c/AlbuqNMkey.html
My AP Gallery
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N7XW
sage
Reged: 05/04/07
Posts: 362
Loc: Westport, WA
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Mike,
Is your scope a modified SN8 or SN10? I dont remember and I didnt see it in your previous posts. Im curious because of the new mount size in relation to the scope. Thanks!
Jon
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N7XW
Z8
114mm Newt (homemade mini-dob project)
60mm Meade (my $10 find!)
60mm Tasco (from years past)
Telrad
SPC900NC
Zhumell eyepieces & filters
3 binoculars
"Don't worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky, and enjoy God's wondrous universe."
- Thomas M. Back, from a November 2006 interview with CN
Rest In Peace, Thomas
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Mike Harvey
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/04
Posts: 718
Loc: Orlando, FL.
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Great looking rig... looks extra heavy sitting by that big crack in the drive way!
LOL! I've been meaning to resurface that driveway for over a year now...thanks for the reminder!!!
I'm just leaving the studio (1:30AM) so I don't think I'll be able to re-do the First Light post tonight.
Coupla' quick responses to other posters though:
*It's an SN-10 in a carbon fiber tube.
*The cords were for the Mallincam. I was in a hurry to take the photo and just left them lying there! 
*Note on Alignment: Part of my post last night related how I deliberately did NOT polar align the scope.
I just pointed it in the general direction of Polaris, making no effort to even get close.
Then I went ahead and did a two-star alignment.
The scope missed both alignment stars by at least 15 degrees, but I went ahead and centered them and hit Align.
AMAZINGLY, the mount HIT EVERY DSO I TRIED DEAD CENTER !
I don't mean the object was IN THE FIELD...I mean DEAD CENTER - EVERY TIME!
I also placed a star in a cross-hair eyepiece and just walked away and let the mount track for nearly a hour.
When I came back the star was still in the cross hairs!
From an alignment, GOTO and tracking standpoint it appears to be a quantum leap up.
Oh...and while it IS a bit noisy when slewing at high rates, it is an improvement over the CG-5 and has nowhere near the "coffee-grinder" sound of the Meades.
When tracking it is totally silent and when slewing at lower rates it is virtually noiseless.
Look at me...I was just going to write a couple of lines! 
OK...one more response to several inquiries:
This is NOT really a "grab 'n go" mount! It's heavy!
And, with the SN-10, in it's Parallax rings, riding a couple of inches further out from the dovetail plate (and increasing the moment-arm)...I needed 45lbs. of counterweights!!! (The OTA w/rings, finder and eyepiece, weighs in at 30#).
Fit, finish is excellent. It REEKS of quality!
And it's absolutely rock-solid stable...no backlash or looseness at all.
OK, that's it for tonight (I think).
Mike
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skyler
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/16/06
Posts: 1677
Loc: TGPNW
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How easy/effortless is the Altitude adjustments with a full load?
Thanks,
S
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Lane
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 11/19/07
Posts: 1682
Loc: Frisco, Texas
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That is a great looking setup you have there. But what about vibration? With a high power eyepiece can you focus without having the image jumping all over the place. How many seconds is taking to damp back down to steady? I was thinking an 11" sct was really going to be to much for this mount to keep steady, what do you think 
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Mounts: CGEM, ORION SIRIUS, AT Voyager/jmi motorized
SCTs: C6, C8, C9.25, C11,
Refractors: TV Pronto, Orion ED80, AT106
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N7XW
sage
Reged: 05/04/07
Posts: 362
Loc: Westport, WA
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Great first report Mike. Thanks!
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N7XW
Z8
114mm Newt (homemade mini-dob project)
60mm Meade (my $10 find!)
60mm Tasco (from years past)
Telrad
SPC900NC
Zhumell eyepieces & filters
3 binoculars
"Don't worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky, and enjoy God's wondrous universe."
- Thomas M. Back, from a November 2006 interview with CN
Rest In Peace, Thomas
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Luigi
Postmaster
Reged: 07/03/07
Posts: 5272
Loc: MA
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What does the head weight? What does the tripod weight? No pix required to answer these questions. 
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17.5" f/5 Dob. IM-715 MCT. 120ED. Lunt 60mm Ha.
Zeiss, Leica, Fujinon, Nikon, Pentax, Bushnell bins
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dickbill
member
Reged: 09/30/08
Posts: 99
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Surprising: even if gotos are perfect, a rough polar alignement should create a drift, unless the mount corrects automatically in RA and Dec, based on the error in polar alignment. Damn, Celestron put some software in this mount !
Edited by dickbill (12/18/08 07:41 AM)
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