Posts Made By: Alice Harvey

I just bought a CG-5 mount and added a dual-axis drive. I can hear the motor working, but it doesn't seem to be engaging the worm drive. I've tried the adjustments suggested in the documentation, with no luck. Short of taking the whole thing apart, does anyone have any suggestions or similar experience? Thanks!

Alice Harvey
San Diego, CA

I am looking for an alternative to an actual observatory. I have a private pad at my astronomy club's dark sky site, and a permanent pier where I'm about to attach a GEM. I'm thinking of something along the lines of a box to enclose and protect the mount (on the top of the pier) once it's installed, aligned, etc.), and I think I saw something in S&T once up a time.

Does anyone have any ideas along this line? I'm definitely open to suggestions. Thanks!

Alice
San Diego, CA