Yes indeed, it's about the right focal length for that object to fit in my little APS sensor. 1312mm +- Rolando

That's great Roland and what a wonderful story. Yeah, looking back, the days of film seem down right barbarous today. For lunar/planetary shots, I did the old "hat trick". I'd focus the old

Great stuff Roland! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I always marvel at the incredible works posted by this group but it is so fun to see the results of impromptu pix. That’s some kinda nice “telephoto”

Hi Astronuts, I uploaded a second image taken at my Hawaii observatory. While cruising around the southern skies with my 175 refractor, visually, I was struck by the brightness and beauty of this

Yeah, I'll second that. I love my Mach 1 (original issue with updates, many years old). The 1100 is actually easier to schlep because it divides into smaller pieces. I can still lift

Another great, straight forward reply Roland and thanks. Jeff

Both mounts are about the same size mechanically. The extra weight comes from the following: The Mach2 is heavier, in part, because it uses a pair of high power servo-stepper motors with belt drive

TBH, anything that involves counterweights is going to be on the heavy side by default. There's just no way around that single most important aspect when it come to weight translating into

NO on the Mach1 being little and light-weight. Got one – and as the years go on, it keeps putting on weight. It’s already at my limit to schlepp around just the mount in a rolling case. And

No I mean Mach1. The Mach2 is a great mount but on the heavy side.

You mean a Mach 2?

A Mach 1 size mount with encoders will be great!

All AP would really have to do is just bring back the Mach 1. No design work necessary, tools exist. As has been previously said by George, it's all about manufacturing capacity at AP. They seem

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If we are going to do fantasy-football type scenarios, I think reasonable strategies would be to do a collaboration with Takahashi - EM-11 with AP electronics/software AP doesn’t have to invest in

Hi Scott, Ah, this helps quite a bit. Yes, I have an MN190 (hoisting that sucker up on the 1100GTO should be an adventure ;-) . Actually one of the main reasons to move up to the 1100GTO from my

Christopher, I'm happy to say that my advice is price competitive with your own. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

I haven't discussed my G11G experience in 2017, especially in a public forum. Suffice it to say I'm glad to be here.

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Hi Jim try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdvABx0zpA -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com