Telescope Reviews: Binocs on EQ mount, sweet!

Sweet sidereal tracking binocs:

Works like a charm using a Bogen 3-axis clamp such that the binocs can always be positioned (most of the time) into a comfortable viewing position pointed anywhere in the sky. The mount is an EQ-4 with an RA tracking motor.

Pointing at the zenith is almost possible. The aluminum bar is for other things, the bogen clamp goes on the dovetail bar with a small block of wood to give it better grip. The extra leverage introduced by the weight of the off-axis clamp plus binocs requires using extra weights as well as keeping the mount in a more-or-less balanced RA/DEC fix.

Really worth the effort with 20X or more binocs.

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- Gill C. - All opinions subject to a speed limit of 299,792,458 m/s unless noted otherwise.
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