New scope installed

[centroid]

Now that the 12" LX200R is fully installed in the obsy, I took a few pictures this morning, of the setup.

The second pic shows the home made mounting rail arrangement for the ED80

The third shows the imaging/guiding setup, with the DSI on the ED80 for guiding, and the H9C on the LX200R for imaging.

The fourth pic is a close-up of a typical imaging setup, in-line is the zero image shift microfocuser, 3.3 Focal Reducer and SXVF-H9C.

Dave

[cygnusx1]

Ooooo im so jealous Dave , cracking setup, obsy, what more can a man want!

[SteelRat]

Nice setup Dave 8)

[MikeP]

You were lucky ... in my day all we had was a toilet roll tube and a pinhole camera .... and when you tell folk that today .....

Mike

[jcm]

Looks an excellent setup.

Should be able to get to a fairly low altitude. Getting near the horizon is one of the problems with a run off shed obs unless you have fold down walls.

John

[barkis]

That is a setup to die for Dave. Look ahead to some super images out of Centroid Central, pardon the christening by the way, it just slipped out.

I hope to have a similar presentation in the very near future, although my Meade is a plain old LX.

Best Wishes.

Ron.

[jonifive]

Splendid setup Dave. Shes a big old girl that Meade, lets hope shes not a cruel mistress

Glad you explained the last pic, because I was wondering why a Lightsaber hilt was sticking out of your new scope. Seriously Dave, thats a fantastic setup.

JV

[Whippy]

Looking good Dave, very nice!

Tony..

[Helen]

Looking good Dave!

If you don't mind me asking... what's your mounting rail made from? been looking at options for my SCT...

Helen

PS I'd never have enough clearance on the NS8 to put that much stuff hanging off the back :shock:

[centroid]

If you don't mind me asking... what's your mounting rail made from? been looking at options for my SCT...

Helen

The end brackets are as follows: one is the bracket that came with an Astro Engineering 'piggy back' camera mounting arrangement (£44), and the one at the other end is a copy, made by local engineering company (£10 .

The mounting rail, is simply a length of steel 'flat', bought from B&Q, and the whole lot spayed in PlastiKoat paint.

The two end brackets, were originally attached to my 10" LX200GPS, and their length and radius was completely wrong for the new 12" OTA. So, a bit more work was required, to adapt these to fit the OTA.

Dave

[Helen]

Thanks Dave I feel a trip to my friendly engineering company coming on (owned by a friend's husband who I've just been told has been telling everyone about the last time they came over our house and we got the scope out... so maybe I could pay in telescope time )

Helen

[CELESCOPE]

Nice setup ,been there touched the tube ,had tea and cake , eheheheh , its very nice Dave ,you done an excellent job on both setup and OBS,

Rog , the double glazing salesman eheheheh

[MartinB]

Looks great Dave. What focusser are you using?

[centroid]

What focusser are you using?

Like the 10" LX200GPS that the new scope replaced, it comes with the Meade Zero Image Shift Microfocuser (motorised) as standard. However, I also have a JMI MotorFocus fitted to the Coarse Focus control.

Another JMI unit, is also fitted to the ED80.

Dave

[Ant]

What a cracking looking set-up! I think your going to have some fun the that baby!

The mounting rail, is simply a length of steel 'flat', bought from B&Q, and the whole lot spayed in PlastiKoat paint.

Thanks for that - thats just what I'm after!

Ant

[steppenwolf]

That's one heck of a setup now, Dave. I hope you have lots of pleasure from it and I look forward to seeing the results.

[The Warthog]

Very hot! Much better than taking pictures through the ep with my Kodak Brownie. Now show us some pictures of DSOs, eh?

[centroid]

Now show us some pictures of DSOs, eh?

Nothing I'd like to do more, but need to find a way of shifting the b****y cloud first.

Dave

[mik]

looks superb

Mick.