altoflute

Hi everyone. I have a pair of very heavy Quantum binoculars. I also have several very heavy tough Manfrotto camera tripods. Needless to say they are useless for 7 Kilo binoculars! I also have an EQ3-2 Pro mount with the lighter aluminium legs, but this holds my 120 refractor with four place eyepiece turret no problem. I got to thinking this would make a brilliant goto binocular mount. Investigasion shows that it will allow the RA axis to set vertical. But the problem is the hand controller only shows equatorial setup in the menus. I also have a Skywatcher EQ6 AZ which works both equatorially and as an altaz mount. That is set up with other scopes so is not available. BUT, because the hand controller for that mount allows both equatorial and AZ in the setup menu, I wondered if I could use that controller. The question I have is: is the software controlling the equatorial/AZ setup in the hand controller or in the mount electronics. I could try it but I'm worried I may blow something in either the hand controller or the mount - I doubt it but wondered if anyone knew the truth! Any help would be gratefully received.

Hi 'L' Thanks, I'll try sliding a star across the view and see what happens. Unfortunately cloudy here in UK today.

Hello everyone. I have used a standard C11 Schmidt visually for some years. I now have an Edge8. I can't afford the official Edge reducer/flattener but still have the original Celestron 0.63. This will give me the focal length reduction but has anyone had experience of its effect on Coma etc? Any thoughts very welcome. Ray