Knighty2112

Now fitted with comfy derrière protector! Lol!

And just in time for Kelling, for the old foggie that I’m getting, a nice observing chair from RVO arrived just over an hour ago!

New Skywatcher powertank arrived today, along with a dew strap for my C8 SCT to cope with the damper nights coming up. Plus tomorrow an observing chair from RVO arrives to make it more comfy when observing, and just in time for Kelling too!

I got the Celestron AUX splitter when I had my 8SE goto mount, which so far has proved to work OK, although TBH I don’t need it on my new AVX goto Mount as there are 2 AUX ports built into it.

On mine it’s just labelled as an ACD. No other details that I can see. You can can get a replacement Starsence handcontroller here although I’ve never bought anything from these before so don’t know how good they are. http://www.microglobe.co.uk/celestron-starsense-hand-controller-p-16770.html

More is less it seems these days. Back when (and showing my age now I know!) we only had two channels to choose from seems like we had it better. Progress ‘eh!

Breeding like rabbits I see! Way to go Opticstar!

New ADM puck for my AVX Mount arrived from FLO this morning, which allows me to replace the saddle with an ADM Vixen saddle (had spare one from Skytee II) to improve the mounting of my scopes when used on the AVX.

That’s an expensive bit of wood to sit on!

Something fishy about both places if you ask me! Hehe!

I like it. Looks very natural as if observing it through a scope. If only we could see it by eye so good!

Hi Alan. Thinking of a wooden chair for observing. How stable is the chair when used on grass?

It’ll still be under warranty still, so best to get FLO sort it out Chris. Hope all goes well.

Looks great, just don’t try it on any solar work! Might end up melting!

And here’s the ‘frac that ousted the Opticstar above!

I recognise that beauty!

I acquired in excellent condition an Altair Astro 66ED-R refractor which was pretty much brand new last week. So as the moon was out last night I thought I’d test it against my other smaller refractor, the Opticstar AR90S. No surprised really that the AA 66 blew the Opticstar away really, with razor sharp images of the moon with with my LV7mm EP. Contrast was much better too than the Opticstar, even after fitting a Semi Apo filter to the Opticstar which did improve the image in the AR90S it was still slightly mushy when compared to the unfiltered AA 66 views. The rack and pinion dual speed focuser works extremely well. All in all extremely pleased with the new scope. Just waiting for a finderscope shoe to fit the scope better. Only downside I’ve seen so far (and this really is a very minor quibble really) is the push end cap does have a tendency to slowly slip off the dewshield if the scope is held with the main lens cell pointing down. A little extra padding in the end cap should stop this though, and not any issue for observationally work at all, only for care of optics. The image taken below with my ZWO ASI 120 mc camera from last night gives a hint at how sharp and good the views where last night of the moon with the new AA 66ED-R ‘frac, along with the two scopes side by side too.

See my thread I started a few days back over just the same issue with a finderscope as you.

New addition of a new (to me) Altair Astro 66ED-R ‘frac seen here on my 6/8SE GoTo mount, next to (dare I say it in this thread?) my C8 on my new AVX Mount tonight before clouds scuppers play. (I’ll await the pitchforks and mob turning up for dating to mention anything other than a ‘frac in this thread! )

Thanks. I’ll give it a try.