jaspalchadha

Nice. I recently had a 70kg payload on it and tracked really well at 2500mm focal 

1 hour ago, SamAndrew said:

Counter weights have been the hold up! bought the mount just before we went into lock down, but have been waiting on the counter weights; Bernard was able to get hold of one last week which should be enough to use with my Quattro8s to start with while we wait for Geoptik to deliver 2 more.

Decent yeah he came to pick that one up from me. I only needed four in the end 

Nice one Sam, did you get a counterweight with it?

Lovely 

Have you tried Version 95G

I haven’t experienced that as of yet! Did you download the latest Sitech software.

.95 G ( something like that )

Go big for sure I own a 14RC on a Mesu Mrk2 and love it

Great shot

Did you sort it? 

Worth a read http://www.loptics.com/articles/starshape/starshape.html

Hi

from experience when collimating my  GSO 14 inch RC (Truss) design 

I’ve used the 

Tak collimator  / Howie collimator (green) and the new R.E.E.E.G.O collimator All providing slightly different results... question is which one do you follow!!!  
 

one reason was the focuser end, I have three grub screws with a copper compression ring, 

Good way to test the howie is, insert the laser into the focuser, slightly tighten making sure it’s plush then rotate the howie, whilst observing the laser dot, if the laser dot moves lot ( up down etc ) then it’s not collimated Correctly 

best advice is to look at a real star at night and work from that.

tools will only give you rough error 

Are you happy with the stars shape Gina?

I wasn't with mine. I've purchased Esprit 100 and found that stars aren't rounded. It was exactly like on your picture above. That's typical defect for pinched optics. I've changed for another one and it has same issue. I was very disappointed with this scope. I' af raid yours one has same issue. I couldn't live with it and swap for WO FLT 98.

Regards

Marek

Was yours the quad lens?

I like the scope anyway, good price for it

Hi Yup just testing the spikes on image, this was taken with a QHY8L colour shot camera

^{I brought one last month, see the picture for yourself of the quality}