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Please help with mounting a telescope


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Hello, I just got this telescope but am having a hard time finding the best way to attach it to a mount. Everything I find in searches is equatorial or azimuth mount, great but first I need to know what type of mounting hardware I need to attach to this thing. If some one can just point me in the right direction it would be sincerely appreciated. 

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It looks like it's fitted with a standard Vixen dovetail (the wedge shaped bar)

If you remove the bracket with the handle then the dovetail should fit any astronomical EQ (or Alt-Az) mount, just check in the specs that they have a vixen saddle.

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Merlin is spot on, of course...
That bracket with handle ( seem to be parts of a photographic tripod) do not belong there. They are poorly attached to what is called a Vixen style dovetail. Now you need a equatorial or Alt/Az mount with a Vixen style dovetail saddle to attached it to  and you are good to go.

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