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Hi Gain, i have seen a lot of very good images from you with higher (> 200mm) focal length. I have one question regarding your process : How are you doing your...
Hi to all: I am thinking of buying an Astrotrac to complement by DSLR imaging, Lugging around my Losmandy G8 is getting tiresome. Two questions to experienced...
Ed: Imagine a big magnitized metal washer with a hole in the middle. The AstroTec polar scope goes through the middle of the hole. The AstroTec has a metal arm...
Thanks, Orin, I understand the basics of the fit. I think that what bothers me is that I have a perfectly good polar scope and would encourage AstroTrac to...
Hi, I know many have already responded but allow me to share my plans for viewing the eclipse in China with my AstroTrac. You can view the photos of my setup...
Hey Ed, The "magnetized washer" is built into the AstroTrac. If you have the AT and its PS, then you don't need to look for one!! The AT's stock PS has a...
I am very interested in the astrotrac. I want to start widefield, but possibly move in a little closer someday with a longer focal length lense. I know it can...
Hi, Is the new wedge for the astrotrac already available. And if so, where could it be purchased? I saw it in the astronomy fair in Germany and it looks cool. ...
Hi Larry I use the free software "stellarium" it is availlable for windows, mac-os and linux if you can find your object in the software planetarium, you will...
Hi Rainer: I use stellarium already and I have a fairly good idea where the target object is. My question is how would one "zoom in" on an object such as M31...
Hey Larry, Rainer and I operate similarly. I use Sky and Telescope's excellent Pocket Sky Atlas together with a multireticle red dot finder in the hot shoe of...
greetings from Spain. Â I recently purchased the astrotrac TT320x and I have a problem when trying to make tracking the moon. In Star tracking all ok, but when...
Thanks Rainer.... Just two things....who's richard and how much is the wedge? Thanks a lot Leo ... De: Rainer <rainerspaeni@...> Asunto: [astrotrac] Re:...
He is Mr. AT ..! See and ask here: http://www.astrotrac.com/Contact.aspx?p=contact&d=Contact <http://www.astrotrac.com/Contact.aspx?p=contact&d=Contact> ...
Thats the way i do it. But, if you use a red dot finder on the hot shoe, centered at daytime, you are much quicker. [;)] I use also the live view on my 450D...
Hi all, does anybody know what type (exact specification) are the three screws (with 1.5mm hex allen key) holding the polar scope's reticule in place? I need...
My new AstroTrac Wedge came in yesterday via DHL - would have been here two days ago but I missed the delivery. I must say, Richard that it is much more...
Hey Pavel, I've bought replacement collimating screws locally, but I just took one of the original screws to the local screw warehouse, and they found matching...
Hi John, I'm glad you like it - we've made several improvements since we showed the prototype at NEAF. It now weighs exactly 1 kg (2.2 lb) and has greater than...
Thx Richard. I will give that replacement TT320X a lot of hard work soon. I am waiting patiently for these long daylight hours to shrink here at 49°N and the...
I would hope it would offer a sturdier base than something like a Manfrotto 410 geared head. The gears have a bit of give in them which affects polar alignment...
I plan to set it up on my surveyors tripod today so I can put the Manfrotto Gear Head up where the Gimbal used to be. I expect this to be a much better setup...
A wedge functions the same way for the AstroTrac as an equatorial mounted telescope mount. It provides for polar alignment - in this case for any latitude....
Hi, I uploaded 9 photos of my new Wedge to my folder - GuzziAlfa. Should be pretty easy to find as I changed the cover photo to an image of the wedge. I took...
Richard, Your wedge sure looks the business and I had been pondering how to get some of the flex out of the usual Manfrotto gear heads setup. I found that to...
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