Well after about a year of being scopeless i broke down and bought a used C6 CG5 GO-TO here off of Astromart. The guy was only about 45 miles from me, the prices was right and the scope looked factory new with very little use.
I bought the scope Sat morning and the clouds rolled in and are staying put for a while. The OTA looks just like a pint size C8 with the nice looking XLT coatings. The GO-TO CG5 mount that came with the C6 was swapped for my friends non GO-TO CG5 with dual drives, he kept his custom wood legs and i kept the new 2" steel tripod legs that came with my mount.
The newer CG5 with the 2" steel legs is so much better than the first Gen CG5 i bought back in 1997 with the small flimsy metal legs, and also the axis are much smoother feeling than my older CG5 with rough and sticky feeling axis of my first Gen CG5.
I think this should be a rock soild mount for C6.
Chas
I bought the scope Sat morning and the clouds rolled in and are staying put for a while. The OTA looks just like a pint size C8 with the nice looking XLT coatings. The GO-TO CG5 mount that came with the C6 was swapped for my friends non GO-TO CG5 with dual drives, he kept his custom wood legs and i kept the new 2" steel tripod legs that came with my mount.
The newer CG5 with the 2" steel legs is so much better than the first Gen CG5 i bought back in 1997 with the small flimsy metal legs, and also the axis are much smoother feeling than my older CG5 with rough and sticky feeling axis of my first Gen CG5.
I think this should be a rock soild mount for C6.
Chas
