Monday, May 08, 2006

New EQ1 mount



Last week I splashed out and bought a new EQ1 mount for my Skywatcher ST-80. In this country EQ1's on it's own are not easy to find! So I went to www.telescope-service.de/ in Germany and ordered one from there. The mount arrived by courier in just 4 days - Great service!

The mount is just right for the scope and leaves my Skywatcher 130m with it's EQ2 mount without the extra weight. The next thing that I need is a Red Dot Finder for the ST-80 to replace the finder scope that came with it.

Managed to get a couple of images last week with the ST-80, although the weather has been nice it is either cloudy or hazy when it goes dark so had to stick with Moon images. Here is one from 5th May of just over half a Moon!

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