Mounting a Solarmax II 60 ???

[Albireo380]

I have just bought a Solarmax II 60 BF10. The OTA is too narrow for a set of 90mm tube rings, has a circumferance of around 27.2cm, and thus a diameter of about 8.8mm.

I have mounted the scope on a Skytee II and it is showing prominences, filaments and granulation nicely, but dont seem to have anything that fits the clamshell to my HEQ5 pro mount (for tracking and thus imaging).

What do other people use to mount this scope on a Skywatcher mount?

Tom

[Peter Drew]

I have an early 70mm Coronado Helios1 solarscope which I believe has a similar clamshell arrangement, if so, I used a Skywatcher dovetail bar screwed to the 1/4" Whit/UNC detail on the clamshell.

[Merlin66]

I have a Solarmax 60 and use the small Vixen dovetail on the clamshell as suggested by Peter.

[Albireo380]

Thanks Peter and Merlin66. I will look into your suggestion and get the dovetail bar.

Tom

[ollypenrice]

I do the same. However, I also like to have a quick grab and go mount so I use a TeleVue Gibraltar for that. To make the Gibraltar accept the Vixen dovetail I simply bolted of these Baader jobbos to it.

http://www.baader-planetarium.de/sektion/s03/bilder/1530_gross.jpg

Now swapping between EQ and maunal Alt Az is instanateous, which is how I like things to be with all the faffing around that comes with my territory!

Olly

[Albireo380]

Thanks Olly. Sorry for slow reply - am in the English lakes and only have intermittant wifi.

Tom