Bob, I looked him up on Google and found this..... http://www.rosenbergtelescopes.com/aboutus22 ... "Maker of high quality carbon fiber telescope tubes" ... ...
Hi, I just purchased a new wedge for my Meade LX90. I ordered the three bolts to attach the wedge to the tripod from ScopeStuff. The bolts are the correct...
I have an email from the same guy, at Wave Optics in Brooklyn, NYC for large dobsonian mirrors. khail250@... Rod, when you have the time could you tell...
I have a 20 year old C-8 (black) that presently has either an image shift problem or just needs to be collimated. When I look at the main mirror, the secondary...
... Yahoo uses "session specific" links, so that won't work, even if you get it all on one line. But I recently found that if you use the url to the...
... What's a "bar" image? ... What magnification? This sounds like the "shadow of the seocndary" effect that can happen at very low power. You get a big...
... <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sct-user/files/Equipment/wedge_bolts_do_not_fit.jpg> ... Seems risky; a single point of attachment is also a single...
... I am guessing "bar image" is a slip of the finger for "bad image"? How is the image bad? When I look at the front of my C8 I can see the secondary mirror...
I've decided to get a CPC 1100. What I'm wondering is if anyone knows if the pinouts on the RJ12 and RJ11 connections on the hand controller are the same as...
... Celestron's original C8 used three outer holes in the tripod/wedge, so early Meade models probably used them. Modern Meade tripods have a center bolt, so...
... True, but many thousands of people have used LX200s in alt-az mode with only the single center bolt. The knob that came with my LX10 wedge is very solid...
I had that issue with my Superwedge. The holes were the right size, but the casting was crappy, and there was flash and other debris around the edges of the...
... Hmmm, are we discussing the wedge bottom part that attaches to the tripod or the wedge angled part to which the base+forks+OTA is attached? If it's the...
Someone (somewhere) once did the calculations to show that the shear stresses required to either sever the bolt or strip the threads of the bolt or hole were...
Hi However, with a properly designed wedge and close to the design latitude, the central bolt is under the same stresses as an Alt Az arrangement. The only...
Here is some text from the description of the field tripod... "When using an equatorial wedge for astrophotography, three top-mounted hex head bolts are...
What do I think of the scope? Nice enough. Some pluses (no dew on the corrector) and some minuses (not so hotsky focusing system). The main thing has always...
It's a-comin', it's a-comin'...been anudder long star party weekend. Look for the next edition mid-week. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a...
... Where did you read that? I found that description on Astronomics' website, one of the very few dealers who provide descriptions beyond Meade's standard...
Yes, I found it on Astronomics' web site. I trust their description, especially since the instructions that came with my wedge were very old (no DLA) and I...
... And those documents only mention the center bolt. I suspect Astronomics' own description is even older. Like I said, once upon a time it was common to use...
I see what you are saying. I contacted the place where I purchased the wedge. They said that they had someone else with the same problem and that person had...
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