alpal
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This is a close up of my NEQ6 Pro mount.
The full pic is a few posts back on this thread.
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
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Loc: Michigan
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My LXD750 with 10" DSO and CGE with TMB 130SS, sadly I am parting company with both mounts to make way for my new CGE Pro, which I hope will be arriving this thursday!! 
CGE PRO with TMB's
Here is my new mount complete with TMB 130SS F7, TMB 80SS (I use as guide scope with Orion Auto Guider) taken when I was using a Canon 450D for imaging. For mobility I added a set of JMI wheelie bars.
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
Posts: 226
Loc: Michigan
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Getting ready for a session, it just clears the top of the door when I drag it out of the kitchen
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
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turbo399
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Loc: Michigan
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The Pro goes 20 degrees past meridian before doing a meridian flip, but the TMB 130SS OTA comes horribly close to the electronics pier!!
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
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Loc: Michigan
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No more wheeling the Pro in and out of the house each session. The dawn of a new day in it's new home with Venus rising!!
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
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Loc: Michigan
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The CGE Pro Mount in it's final resting place....a big lump of concrete!!
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
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Loc: Michigan
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After my last imaging session, The TMB 130SS needs a rest. Time to load the 10" DSO 
Clear Skies
Terry
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
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alpal
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Reged: 06/15/09
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Terry - you have an impressive setup.
I hope to be able to do astrophotos one day too
but I feel I have spent enough for now.
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Location: Melbourne Australia.
8" f6 custom built Newtonian with
EQ6 Pro mount.
Takahashi LE 5mm eyepiece & 2 x Tak. Barlow.
Williams Optics Eyepieces - 2" 40mm & 25mm, 1.25" 15mm & 9mm.
Saxon 11 x 70 binos.
Set of 11 Hirsh Optics 1.25" filters.
Set of 4 Orion 2" filters.
Antares 1.25" ALP filter.
+ One cheap 4.5" Newt. complete with eyepieces.
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
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Loc: Michigan
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Thanks alphal
I see you are from Melbourne, my home town!! I miss my visits to the Grampians and the pollution free skies...."Omega Centauri" *sighs*
Terry
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
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starquester
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Reged: 09/03/04
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Hi terry,
Very nice set up and a cool Flip Top Observatory.
Nice job,
Alan
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Alan D. Otterson
Windy Ridge Observatory
41-58.966N
85-43.069W
Alan Otterson
Founder&Owner
A Yahoo Observatory Group
Flip Top & Clamshell & Rubbermaid Observatories
http://tinyurl.com/yz9ckk
The Nikon D40 Astrophotography Group
http://tinyurl.com/5j8qw2
A Yahoo Astrophotography Group
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alpal
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A very impressive setup - that TMB 130 is worth a fortune.
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Location: Melbourne Australia.
8" f6 custom built Newtonian with
EQ6 Pro mount.
Takahashi LE 5mm eyepiece & 2 x Tak. Barlow.
Williams Optics Eyepieces - 2" 40mm & 25mm, 1.25" 15mm & 9mm.
Saxon 11 x 70 binos.
Set of 11 Hirsh Optics 1.25" filters.
Set of 4 Orion 2" filters.
Antares 1.25" ALP filter.
+ One cheap 4.5" Newt. complete with eyepieces.
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rwiederrich
Goldfinger
Reged: 11/17/05
Posts: 8328
Loc: Bremerton Washington
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I'v got a short video of my homemade mount.
http://www.vimeo.com/6014031
Rob
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www.goldmtobservingcenter.com
A great place for amateur astronomers, and ATM's to come and enjoy their hobby.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/HomemadeRefractorTelescopes/ My homemade refractor group.
www.vimeo.com/6014031
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
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Loc: Michigan
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A very impressive setup - that TMB 130 is worth a fortune.
Thanks guys, you know what, some folks have many thousands of dollars tied up in the likes of ski boats or guns. My hobby...these days my only hobby is astrophotography, to do it right isn't cheap. What I have didnt come cheaply yes but comparitively speaking to some of the other rigs around here, it's small.
Now when I place my 10" on the CGE PRO, I can only just close the roof...lol
Cheers and Clear Skies
Terry
BTW Nice F15 Refractor Rob!!
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
Edited by turbo399 (08/18/09 05:11 PM)
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CounterWeight
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Loc: PDX chronoplast
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Terry,
Thanks for pics of the CGE-Pro 'in situ' and 'et al'... Nice obs! That concrete base looks HUGE and very safe. CGE pro mount looks correspondingliy LARGE. I can see they really 'beefed up' the connectors and lots of knobs instead of allen heads... both great improvements. How did you attach the 'pro' to the pier?
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CGE (Frankenmount mod.)
Onyx 80ED, Tak FS-128 #02058, TEC APO160ED #030
CCD: Orion SSPDSCIv2, SSI3, SSAG
diags, ep's, tubes, filters, Binocs
My CN Image Gallery
Experience is a difficult teacher, it gives the test first, and gives the lesson later
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alpal
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That concrete is good.
I saw the base of the 24" F5 Newtonian at the Tikorangi
Observatory , New Plymouth , New Zealand.
It had 40 tons of concrete in it's base.
It was owned by a " Mr Whelan "
but I don't know what happned to it.
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Location: Melbourne Australia.
8" f6 custom built Newtonian with
EQ6 Pro mount.
Takahashi LE 5mm eyepiece & 2 x Tak. Barlow.
Williams Optics Eyepieces - 2" 40mm & 25mm, 1.25" 15mm & 9mm.
Saxon 11 x 70 binos.
Set of 11 Hirsh Optics 1.25" filters.
Set of 4 Orion 2" filters.
Antares 1.25" ALP filter.
+ One cheap 4.5" Newt. complete with eyepieces.
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turbo399
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Reged: 12/21/07
Posts: 226
Loc: Michigan
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Jim
Thanks, the CGE PRO mount is similar to the CGE but in my opinion better finished, the DEC and RA cables are a vast improvement on the ever plagued CGE cables, it should have been recalled!! the connection points even have a nice screw on plug to keep out moisture. The pro is one very sturdy mount and if I was to make a decision again to buy one in this class, it would be between the Pro and the MI 250, costing over $2,000.00 more
The mount is attached to the pier via a 1" thick round aluminum plate I had water jet cut, drilled and tapped for the electronics pier connection, bolted down to the to levelling plate and sleeved inside the electronics pier which is bolted through to the aluminum plate. It was important that the aluminum plate be perfectly flat so not to upset the level.
The concrete in hindsite was a bit of overkill at 24" diameter and was worried that it would fowl with the TMB when viewing zenith or doing a meridian flip, it comes close but its fine......pheww
Clear skies
Terry
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TMB 130SS F7 Refractor
TMB 80SS F6.3 Refractor
Celestron C14
10" F5 Astrograph/Newt
Stellarvue 80ED Nighthawk NGD
Vixen 80ED
Celestron CGE PRO Mount
QHY8
Canon 450D modified
Orion Autoguider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/
Edited by turbo399 (08/19/09 04:11 PM)
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DeanS
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 945
Loc: Nicholasville, Kentucky
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Here is a quick pic of my new AP900 set up next to the AP1200. Just got it yesterday and set it up last night in time for clouds. Did get lucky enough to site polaris, align and do a few gotos on bright stars.
Sorry for the bad iPhone pic, will get some better ones with the roof off during the daytime.
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AP1200GTO AP900GTO
TOA-150 Tak E160
C9.25 Tak FS60C
SXV-H9 ST2000XM STV
8" LX200GPS
Meade 12" Lightbridge
Moonlite Focusers
www.doghouseastronomy.com
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RichfromRoch
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Reged: 01/30/08
Posts: 69
Loc: Rochester, NY
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Stellarvue SV90/Pan 24 on a UA Unistar Light/KB Systems KB1A Field Tripod
Edited by RichfromRoch (08/28/09 02:18 PM)
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Phil Cowell
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Loc: Southern Tier NY
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The pro is one very sturdy mount and if I was to make a decision again to buy one in this class, it would be between the Pro and the MI 250, costing over $2,000.00 more
I went through the same decision earlier this year and picked up the Pro as well. The MI250 is a very nice mount, I just don't like the goto system is has. That was the reason I went with the Pro.
Phil
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If it'll fit on a sig you don't have enough
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alpal
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Reged: 06/15/09
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Wow - those Stellarvue telscopes are impressive.
Look at this link for their SV160 model
http://www.stellarvue.com/160.html
You can't even get on the waiting list till next year
to buy one.
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Location: Melbourne Australia.
8" f6 custom built Newtonian with
EQ6 Pro mount.
Takahashi LE 5mm eyepiece & 2 x Tak. Barlow.
Williams Optics Eyepieces - 2" 40mm & 25mm, 1.25" 15mm & 9mm.
Saxon 11 x 70 binos.
Set of 11 Hirsh Optics 1.25" filters.
Set of 4 Orion 2" filters.
Antares 1.25" ALP filter.
+ One cheap 4.5" Newt. complete with eyepieces.
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