my orion piggybacked on cpc800

[nathkrul]

Just put the orion onto the cpc800 tonight, got it all setup ready to go focused on Jupiter, the seeing was **** tonight and moon was out, but at least its all ready to go now

Colin

[Ian123]

look's a nice setup nath.

[nathkrul]

It is m8, I usually have the orion refractor mounted on my heq5-pro but I really like the simple Gps star align of the cpc so bought myself an ADM mounting kit about 2 months back.

I originally thought the weight of the other scope plus the counterbalance weight would be too much for the mount but after last night I know its ok now, plus others have done a similar setup.

Lets hope it stays lined up after taking the scope and rings off the dovetail bar, kept the rings attached to the refractor of course, but we'll find out when its clear next, whenever that will be(most likely be when moons full again lol).

At least I can use the refractor while waiting for the cpc scope to cool down now just got sick of the long cool down time even though I use a cat cooler to cool it down quicker..

[Psychobilly]

Its amaxing what the CPC's will cope with whilst they are kept in Alt/Az...

Once you move a setup like this onto a wedge then balance becomss more critical and its worth thinking about replacing the plastic Azm bearings as they quickly become deformed...

Billy...

[nathkrul]

Hi Billy, just out of curiosity, where do you get the uprated bearings from?

Thanks m8

Colin