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Hi everyone I own a Celestron SLT telescope and recently one of the clamps on the tripod leg snapped unfortunately. Now I've managed to source a replacement clamp but I'm struggling to understand how to fit it in. There are the black plastic parts that sit on both ends of the stainless steel leg which stop the clamp from sliding in. Not sure how I can take one of the plastic part off?

Recently I acquired an old Leviathan 25/40x 100 binoculars with wooden tripod made by Monk Optics. It's a bit tatty cosmetically but the optics are unmarked. There doesn't seem to have a lot of information regarding this pair of binoculars, does anyone have any experience with it? I set it up for a terrestrial target and the viewing is great although purple fringing is visible. Not sure if it will be suitable for astronomical viewing? The binoculars are not angled at the viewing end, this may cause a bit of inconvenience. I also would like to know if by any chance I could attach astronomical eyepieces to the binoculars? Thanks

Welcome to SLG! I think skywatcher skyliner 200P would be a good start. It's large in aperture, easy to use and it does not cost too much.

Thanks a lot I dissembled the eyepiece barrel bit and indeed the ITF is rusty, which could be the reason. I'll look to buy a replacement filter then..

I have had an opportunity to own a double stack PST. I took the scope out with a 12.5mm eyepiece, and without the double stack module I'm able to get a reasonable view of the whole disk with some prominence. I then threaded on the double stack module at the front of the scope, immediately in the eyepiece the solar disk becomes very very dim and I'm having troubles to view the sun clearly, let alone distinguishing the surface details. I understand the double stack module reduced bandwidth but I'm not sure if the image is supposed to be dimmed by so much that it affected the viewing. Is it something normal, or maybe some parts of my set up was faulty?

I was observing the sun yesterday (Sunday) with my Lunt 60mm and a 9mm eyepiece. In the eyepiece I was focused on the edge to try to see some details in prominences. At about between 10.30 to 11.30am ish I noticed a very small black dot moving across in my field of view in eyepiece. It was about 3-4s between it entering and leaving my view. Initially I thought I was just a fly or ISS (thought I was lucky!) flying across the view, but then in the evening I was thinking if it were a fly the shape can't be a dot/disk and the dot was in focus too. I'm not sure what could that be that I saw? Unfortunately no footage or image as was just observing at the time..

Thank you for the help!

Hello I came across an erecting prism with seemingly good build quality, can anyone help with identifying its brand? Thank you.

My Bresser AR127L has a broken focuser as I've realized recently. When I took the knob part of the R&P focuser for examination I found that the worm gear was badly worn out, and the focuser knob shaft was bent already. I'm wondering if anyone's got experience with replacing the worm gear part? I'm trying to contact Bresser as well to see if they are able to provide/sell any replacement parts. Thanks in advance.

Hi all thanks for all the replies. As I played around it, I found that the top silver screw in first pic is for tension and bottom is for locking. I had to tighten the tension screw really really hard to the focuser knobs can drive the tube. I disamble the focuser and found the mechanism opposite to the knobs has a ball bearing missing. I suppose this is the issue so I ordered some replacement bearings.

Hi everyone, I recently acquired a TAL 100RS, the optics are in great condition, however there is one issue - the focuser doesn't work. Basically when I rotate the focuser knob the focuser tube is not moving at all, and if I loosen the focuser locking screws I can just spin the knobs freely. I pulled out the tube, and I think the focuser is missing a part but I'm not sure which and not sure how to repair it. Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance.

Ah ha I see. The previous owner is cheeky!

Need to start stockpiling the label now!

Really? If someone has done that he's done a great job, as there is no way I could tell the label was peeled off from somewhere else..