Posts Made By: Rod Mollise

Ben DeGroat said:

I know this is a touchy subject but any advice would be appreciated sorry for the long story i tried making short lol.

Magnus Ahrling said:

What should I buy, a new EQ6 SynScan Pro mount or a GotoNova Kit for my CG-5? The price for buying the EQ6 S.Scan Pro will be about 3X as expensive as only buying the GotoNova for my CG-5.
The scopes I intend to use on any of the mounts are: Orion Optics Newtonian UK 8" f/6 (7,2kg), Intes MK66 (7kg) and maybe sometimes C80ED and ST120.

Any advice would be most helpfull.
I am just a visual observer, I don`t do any astroimagening! But I really would like a good GoTo mount

-Magnus

victor truglio said:

would you say a new c6 with starbright xlt coatings is the equivlent of an older c8 with starbright coatings or would the older c8 still come out on top.

Anthony Ayiomamitis said:

Anyone notice the surge in volume (154,000 shares) and price (+18% at 32 cents) ....

Anthony.

George Andrew said:

Well there goes the rest of my 401K that I didn't loose in the market. At least you don't need the $25.00 2" extender.

Victor Cox said:

I asked the Meade rep, who had no idea, about converting the Classic basic circuit board in the telescope and matching hand controller to a later version. Has this been done short of just buying a new telescope. Looks like you could just buy a newer version circuit board for the telescope and match it with a new hand controller, maybe autostar or something.

David Bacheller said:

I obtained a used celestron c5. It has a loose corrector plate. Is there a given protocol for correctly centering the plate (say, some home-built spacers at the perimeter) or must this be sent to celestron. Is believe I read about this being a somewhat common problem with a certain generation of c5's.

Also, the focus knob on this C5 moves VERY freely. It moves the mirror and focusing works fine, but I was surprised at the ease of movement. Is this normal?

Thanks for any insights,

David B

Gary Pakalski said:

Hi everyone,
I've recently picked up an old 10" LX6 that the coatings on the corrector plate are about half gone. My first project is to try and remove the remainder of what's left and then try and find someone to re coat it.

So first off, anyone know how to remove the old stuff, and second does anyone know of a company that re coats correctors?

Thanks,
Gary

K. Michael Malolepszy said:

New Adaptive Optics images of Jupiter at

George Andrew said:

Well there goes the rest of my 401K that I didn't loose in the market. At least you don't need the $25.00 2" extender.