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Peter in Reno
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Reged: 07/15/08
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Loc: Reno, NV
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Re: Rotatable plate or adapter for Atlas EQ-G mounts?
07/20/08 08:38 PM Attachment (15 downloads)
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Take a look at the attached 30 year old picture of my Celestron 8 I owned for 5 years when I was a teenager. My father and I found it ridiculous to rotate the tripod for polar alignment so my father designed and built a neat tool to fit in between the wedge and tripod as shown in the attached photograph. This tool also rotates the wedge 360 degrees! No matter how unleveled the tripod is, this tool can easily compensate and level the wedge. Also I had aftermarket lattitude adjuster which is not shown in the picture.
30 years later, nobody makes anything like this and we still have to rotate the #$%&@ tripod!!!!!
I can live with minimal azimuth adjustment of today's GEM so I am not complaining (ok, a little bit). 
Peter
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Celestron 11" OTA with ADM Losmandy dovetail
Orion EON 80mm
Orion Short Tube 80mm with ADM mini-dovetail and clam shell tube rings
Orion StarShoot Pro CCD camera
Orion StarShoot Auto Guider
Nagler 31mm
Ethos 13mm and 8 mm
2" William Optics diagonal
Atlas EQ-G with 1" CW shaft from Telescope Stability Systems, ADM Losmandy saddle.
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