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Posts Made By: Steven Gaber

February 8, 2014 06:01 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

vixen altaz

Posted By Steven Gaber
I had one of those with the same problem. My solution was to put a short piece of copper tubing on each (I think) of the axes to prevent the mount from going past the threads in its travel. This seemed to work.

Steve Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

May 23, 2014 02:35 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Stellarvue F1001 Red Dot Finder battery life?

Posted By Steven Gaber
It will last a long time as long as you remember to turn it off after a session. But I have forgotten to turn it off on occasion and have found the batteries dead after a few days or a week.

Steve Gaber
Oldsmar,FL

June 4, 2015 10:31 AM Forum: Refractors

102mm Shoot out

Posted By Steven Gaber
Definitely the Stellarvue.

July 5, 2015 10:41 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Machinist?

Posted By Steven Gaber
Doug Peterson said:

Looking for someone to turn down a refractor end plate by .100" to slip into a slightly smaller tube. Precise Parts seems to be into its online adapter thing that is hard to navigate. Anyone know of someone to do light duty mods such as the above?

Try Crawford Machine Shop. Dan Crawford made a custom focuser for the SN6 I gave to my son and grandchildren. It works great and was less expensive than the imported Chinese ones.

Crawford Machine Shop
8498 Ora Lane
Vale, NC 28168 - View Map

Phone: (828) 328-4240

Steve Gaber
Oldsmar,FL

October 4, 2015 06:00 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Re: Astro Physics Telescope - 130mm f/6.3 Starfire

Posted By Steven Gaber
Roland Christen said:

Why not pass on it and let the next person in line have a go? You obviously don't want it.

Rolando

Sounds sensible and fair to me. Why would you think of doing anything else?

Steven Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

October 10, 2015 03:18 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

New (to me) NS11 GPS with loud motors.

Posted By Steven Gaber
What is an NS11 GPS? Never heard of it.


Adam Block said:

I just got a NS11 GPS and the noises it makes while tracking drive me up a wall! After some research I assumed MC version 3.0 due to the "bee in a can" description. I just powered it up and went into utilities and there was no "version" option to select from. This would make me think HC version 1.2 and MC version 2.0 or lower, but after going into factory debug mode I found I do in fact have HC version 1.2 and the MC 3.0 version. With that said here are my questions:

1) Since I have HC 1.2 and MC 3.0 can I upgrade the MC to 4.06 via the port on the base of the scope?

1b) Can I select which version I want or do I have to upgrade to the newest?

2) If yes and I do so since I'm keeping HC 1.2 and only upgrading MC will this allow me to keep the GPS Align feature?

3) I see no point in fixing something that isn't broken so provided I can upgrade the MC version (to address the noise) since I don't want to lose the GPS align is there any point in upgrading the HC version?


As a side note, I need a Windows computer to do this, really??!! That's insane, I haven't used a Windows computer in a decade. Also, I'm SHOCKED that with all of us being slight geeks somebody hasn't created a firmware that's keeps the best of all the features Celestron has offered. At least some type of a hack or work around.

Thank you all for reading and for any insight or help you can offer.

Adam

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