Posts Made By: Rod Mollise

Jimmy Vick said:

I am looking at buying and older C14 from a guy. I cant tell if the mount in a Losmandy G11 or an Older Celestron CGE. Any help would be great.

robin woolsey said:

I have a Neximage Solar system imager and I've read somewhere it could be used as an autoguider as well. What does it take to do this? The imager has a USB connection and my CG-5 has a 6-pin phone jack connection. Is there an adapter and what software is required?
robin

Jimmy Vick said:

Back in college I used a Meade DS 10 for my first telescope. It is long gone and there is a guy selling a DS 16 locally, what is a fair market price for a bare bones DS 16 in fair shape?

And... are the drives on the DS 16s better than the ones on the DS 10?

Thanks!

David Albertson said:

Moving to Los Angeles has killed my astronomy life over the last few years. I have a beautiful, but large scope, a Celestron Nexstar 9.25 GPS. I'm hoping that getting something smaller will help me get out more often. I've spent more than $3000 on the equipment, but haven't decided on what I should ask when I resell. Any suggestions? More photos at the link below. Thank you so much!!

charles geiger said:

I see the Baader 2" OIII and UHC filters are about $100.00 each. Are they as good as Lumicon? Do they fit most 2" eyepieces (threads)?

Keith Lawson said:

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Keith

William Wright said:

Hi, I am rebuilding a dynascope RB-6. These scopes were made from about 1958 to into the 1980's. Is there any way to determine when an RB-6 was made. I found markings on to drive motor, 35674-r-6 1-80. Could the 1-80 be Jan. 1980 or is it something else? I need to replace the reduction gearing for this scope, if anyone has a motor, reduction gearing available please let me know. When did the first RB-6 hit the market and when did the last one leave the factory?

Robert Black said:

Does anyone know why the threads on the back of my scope appear to be 44mm instead of normal sct thread? Meade doesn't seem to know even though they built it? Thank's, Bob.

Steven Lynn said:

I should know this, but for various reasons I have tilted toward Vixen products, but away from Meade. Not rational reasons. Some of you are old enough to remember before the 1980's that some families were "Ford" families, and some were "Chevy" families. Inter-marriage was unthinkable! It's like that. So I don't know much about the Meade mounts.

Anyway, can the Meade LX and other mounts fit on a Vixen hub? The green and black era Vixen, for the Super and Great Polaris family of mounts. The hub with the little tip sticking up?

Thanks,
Steven

thomas marabillas said:

could anybody help me identify this beautiful old telescope. i rebuilt it and there are no markings on it except for the pyrex stamp on the main eight inch mirror, and the small bodine motor that drive the main arm. it is really put together well and weighs four hundred pounds. the main drive gear is brass, setting circles are aluminum. any help would be greatly appreciated. original color was drab green. tube is welded steel. finder scope has cross hatches etched into the eyepiece.