Hi Lawrence, If you go with the ribbed plates and rings you are certainly going way beyond what is necessary to economically mount your C-14 to the AP mount. Unless your C-14 was a production

Lawrence, My C-14 is 31 years old; one year older than yours. There is no problem to install a Losmandy dovetail plate on that vintage C-14. I'd again refer you to www.losmandy.com and you can

orthogonality definitively it is dovetail 22.5kg) and Vincent: I have set the axes of an LX200 in daytime using a laser, obviously this is a fork mount, but I think that you can do it with a

Received my brand new (from the factory) Celestron 9.25" OTA. It came with its own Celestron bar attached. This bar is very narrow and obviously is made for Celestron mounts only. I do have the AP

Hi all, I 'll like to move my mount by using servo motors. I know the gto-mount uses servo motors. Can anybody give me any information about these motors : size, gears, volts, encoder, electronics,

jmarietta@... writes: It may be adjusted too tight. What mount do you have? You can call Wally here at Astro-Physics and he can walk you through the adjustment. Roland Christen

visonneau-vin@... writes: Part of the problem with Schmidt-Cassegrains may be in the mirror flop. The mirror can move or tilt slightly when going from one side of the mount to the other. If

I'll check this out as an alternative to a ribbed 15" AP plate & paralax rings. Has anyone had experience with both setups ? 1. 15" ribbed AP plate & Parallax rings. 2. Losmandy dovetail (if I can

Hi all I have a C14 and a AP 900GTO mount and i also have some orthogonality problem (error of pointing!) ,have someone a tips for me to definitively kill this problem,can i correct the orthogonality

Hi folks, Some times my dec gear makes a loud whining noise when slewing. And sometimes I can hear the motor change pitch and vary in sound as the scope turns. Balancing of the scope was checked by

I bet if you talked to Celestron or Losmandy they might be able to fix you up. Maybe? "Lawrence D. Lopez" wrote: -- == Greg Mueller Port Gamble, Washington Amateur Astronomer, Machinist,

Greg, This C14 is 30 years old, No losmandy dovetail. Larry Greg Mueller wrote:

Lawrence, I mount my C-14 on my AP 1200 GTO using a Losmandy dovetail plate. No problem. Go to www.losmandy.com and look up their dovetail plates for the C-14. Dave Jurasevich

I got my C14 on a G11 as the Celestron package, so it had a losmandy dovetail. This is a pretty good way to adapt what you've got to an AP mount. "Lawrence D. Lopez" wrote: -- == Greg Mueller

I was wondering how you mount the C14 on the AP 1200. Paralax sells 15.3" rings for it. This would seem to be the tube diameter (not the end-caps diameter). There is only 21" of clear tube for the

lopez@... writes: There is an easy way. Call Christine at our AP number (815-282-1513) and she will explain all the options. Roland Christen

Hello all, Well along time since I have posted to the users-group. I have been hard at work helping to build the next drop of the GTO A/P mount hand controller code, you all WILL BE VERY PLEASED

Hi all! I have completed the first "limited" production run of the adapter plates for the TMB 105/650 and Astro-Physics equatorial mounts. The bottom plate provides 5 positions in which to mount an

In all likelihood, when the camera's internal computer starts up, it goes through an initialization sequence. During this time, the state of the "switches" which drive the guider port can be in an

This may be in the wrong forum but here goes. (Apologies if it is.) My AP600E and ST-7E have developed a peculiarity. When I plug all the cables in (as recommended). I've polar aligned with eyepiece