Ercole Giro

[John]

10 minutes ago, Alan White said:

Blimey John, that ED150 makes the ED120 look tiny.

Speaks well of the Giro though.

150 F/8's are a lot larger than the ED120. The Giro Ercole was very much at it's limit with this lot on board to be honest. It's much, much happier with just the ED120 !

 

[Alan White]

22 minutes ago, John said:

150 F/8's are a lot larger than the ED120. The Giro Ercole was very much at it's limit with this lot on board to be honest. It's much, much happier with just the ED120 !

 

How was it with just the ED150? 

[John]

39 minutes ago, Alan White said:

How was it with just the ED150? 

The Ercole needed a lot of counterweighting (10 kg) on the other side to allow smooth motions. Due to the optical issues that I had with both the ED150's that I received I didn't do any serious observing so I've not used the Ercole "in anger" with that scope.

The Ercole copes with my 130 F/9.2 triplet (which is not far off the same length and weight as the ED150) quite well but the Skytee II is a bit more stable at high powers.

I've thought for some while that I probably need a mount with more capacity / capability than both the Skytee II and the Ercole for the 130 F/9.2 to give it's best but I've been wary of investing £1K plus in one thus far. I have hopes that this new alt-az that FLO are due to announce might be what I'm looking for 

[Alan White]

9 hours ago, John said:

I have hopes that this new alt-az that FLO are due to announce might be what I'm looking for 

Thank you John, I thought you would answer as you did.

As to the quote from your post above about the Carrot 🥕 Mount, I am trying to not get too excited, yet.

I am looking at my Astro future, driven by my now done in knees, so the mount is a central part of that future.

[Alan White]

I am still chuckling at the inadvertent naming..

The Carrot 🥕Mount 😂

[Space Hopper]

On 20/09/2019 at 16:43, FLO said:

Will leave this here for the weekend 🙂 

Will post more photos and details in the sponsor section early next week. 

Any chance of this making an early appearance at Kelling or Novembers IAS.......?? 🙂

[FLO]

1 hour ago, Tubby Bear said:

Any chance of this making an early appearance at Kelling or Novembers IAS.......?? 🙂

We will definitely have one with us at IAS. Not sure about Kelling. 

HTH, 

Steve 

[Alan White]

Calling @FLO how is the AZ100 information progressing?

 

Edited September 24, 2019 by Alan White

[djpaul]

I was thinking the same thing.

[Telescope40]

Ditto !!   Tomorrow will not be early next week 😜😜😜

[FLO]

Sorry. I had forgotten a colleague is on holiday this week so I am a little behind. I will have made the photos and added them to our website before end of Thursday. 

We do however have some good news. @John has kindly agreed to spend some time using this new mount and provide feedback. Not as a reviewer, more a beta tester 🙂 

Steve 

[Alan White]

38 minutes ago, FLO said:

Sorry. I had forgotten a colleague is on holiday this week so I am a little behind. I will have made the photos and added them to our website before end of Thursday. 

We do however have some good news. @John has kindly agreed to spend some time using this new mount and provide feedback. Not as a reviewer, more a beta tester 🙂 

Steve 

We will let you off just this once 🤣

But what John really needs is another ED150 sat on it to test it fully Steve 😁

Edited September 24, 2019 by Alan White

[John]

2 minutes ago, Alan White said:

We will let you off just this once 🤣

But what John really needs is another ED150 sat on it to test it fully Steve 😁

I do have a TMB/LZOS 130mm F/9.2 triplet Alan - it's very close to the same weight and length as the ED150

 

[Alan White]

@John i was hoping you would kill two birds with one stone 😀

 

[Alan White]

I am getting excited now.
Thursday tomorrow..............................

[johninderby]

2 minutes ago, Alan White said:

I am getting excited now.
Thursday tomorrow..............................

Are you making up a list of things you don’t really need that can be sold for when you buy the new mount. 😁

Edited September 25, 2019 by johninderby

[Alan White]

Just now, johninderby said:

Are you making up a list things you don’t really need that can be sold for when you buy the new mount. 😁

Short answer yes......
Starting - Kidney.
 

[johninderby]

Now do I sell the TS-AZ5 (Skytee) with or without the EQ6 tripod?

Edited September 25, 2019 by johninderby

[Alan White]

Wait and see what the AZ100 is coming with or not John.
It may well need a solid tripod such as yours anyhow.
 

[johninderby]

FLO hinted at a price between the Ercole and AZ8.

[Alan White]

9 minutes ago, johninderby said:

FLO hinted at a price between the Ercole and AZ8.

But which end of between I am wondering?

[johninderby]

I’m thinking £599.00 or so for just the head without saddles. 🤔🙂

[Alan White]

Be very interesting if it was and has a high enough capacity.

[Alan White]

 

[FLO]

We have posted photos and details of the new Rowan AZ100 Alt-Az mount 🙂