Just saying Hello

[garyR]

A ‘Returning’ amateur astronomer from near York in my later 60’s. My first telescope in 50 yrs. I’m learning from Ground Zero all over again with a New 2 weeks ago from FLO Skywatcher AZ-GTIX mount + Skywatcher Startravel 120mm refractor ota  + Synscan V5 handset Package. 
best wishes - Gary 

Edited November 28, 2022 by garyR

[Floater]

Welcome. Have lots of fun. 🙂

Impressive rig(s). 

[christiano]

Haha the twin setup looks awesome!

[Sunshine]

Welcome! 

[barbulo]

Hi and welcome to SGL

[PeterCPC]

Hello and welcome.

[Astro_Dad]

Welcome back to the hobby - nice rig 👍🏻

[RT65CB-SWL]

Hi @garyR and welcome to SGL. 

 

12 hours ago, cadoran said:

Haha the twin setup looks awesome!

They certainly do...

Above, is my twin setup[s]!

[-philip-]

We spoke on Facebook! Great set up and inspired me to buy the GTiX 

[Stu]

18 hours ago, garyR said:

A ‘Returning’ amateur astronomer from near York in my later 60’s. My first telescope in 50 yrs. I’m learning from Ground Zero all over again with a New 2 weeks ago from FLO Skywatcher AZ-GTIX mount + Skywatcher Startravel 120mm refractor ota  + Synscan V5 handset Package. 
best wishes - Gary 

Looks great Gary! Out of interest, do you need the L bracket or can you mount the second scope directly to the saddle? Looks like they are at 90 degrees but can you adjust them so they are parallel? Thanks, and enjoy your rig and the forum 👍

[dave34]

Welcome to the lounge.

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi Gary, welcome. 

[garyR]

On 28/11/2022 at 17:34, Stu said:

Looks great Gary! Out of interest, do you need the L bracket or can you mount the second scope directly to the saddle? Looks like they are at 90 degrees but can you adjust them so they are parallel? Thanks, and enjoy your rig and the forum 👍

I don’t think you can adjust them to be parallel. Possible with technical engineering expertise maybe you could. But no 2 saddle that holds the L Plate has 2 adjustment knobs for altitude alignment with no 1 ota 

[SCANS]

Yep, they can be rotated. Haven't tried it with mine yet as I'm still in info overload as I explore refractor options for ours, but someone else did. They said you just loosen the three grub screws on the left saddle and you can spin it around to match the right side. Easy way to gain a few more grams of payload capacity.

[wookie1965]

A warm welcome to SGL 

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

[SkyPhil]

Hello ,  new to forum and nice to see someone with a similar setup.r setup

Any advice greatly. appreciated

Cheers