By the way you can use the AP wood tripod for altazimuth viewing. I got the deluxe GR-2 mount (finally after about 4 months) and had a special adapter made for the AP top. It works very nicely! What I

I previously purchased the aluminum AP tripod for my AP 600E GoTo mount. While it does fit, the reusult was a lot of shaking -- unsatisfactory. The aluminum tripod was meant for a smaller mount like

Someone said >> If polar alignment is not accurate, goto will not be accurate. Well how accurate do you think you need to be? I have found that daytime polar alignment as described in

Hi all, I plan on getting a portable pier for the cottage for the 600. I will leave that one at the cottage year round. What I am wondering is; does the birch mount or the lightweight aluminum

writes: The drift is not noticeable in 30 minutes at reasonable altitudes. Near the horizons, I do get drift due to atmospheric refraction. My pier sits on a large concrete block that goes 4ft

chuck_olson@... writes: It doesn't fail. Even with poor alignment, you will find stuff at low power. If you stay in one area, you can center a bright star in your finder or low power ocular,

If polar alignment is not accurate, goto will not be accurate. I complained about this quite sometime ago and was told that it was doubtful that it would change. It has been awhile, but IIRC, there

That review was well done. IIRC, it was also the last time they have reviewed an AP scope or mount until this latest fluff piece. Gus

My mount is the parallax 125 with the ap gto, the only other gto telescope I have owned is the lx200. Obviously gem mounts made by ap,parallax and others are superior in build quality and are more

Chuck, Polar alignment does improve tracking... but it also "teaches" the mount where it is - call that point A - so that it can get from point A to any other point. But do not be concerned. It is

Hmmm, most of the mounts and DSC's I've used have a way to accomodate less than perfect polar alignment, through the use of more than one alignment star. I'm not an AP900GTO owner yet, so this

spend on Believe it or not Astronomy had a very comprehensive review on AP refractors and mounts, 400, 600 & 1200 back in Sept 1993. Obviously things have changed for the worse and the current

Hi all, I may not be able to answer Email for a couple of days. Our service provider, @Link, is going under, and we are scrambling to find an alternative. This is happening in Illinois and

I think the article speaks for it's self! Doesn't say much for JPL either. I wouldn't put my name behind such a piece, "puff piece" or not, goes to credibility. There's simply no excuse. I don't know

In a message dated 5/2/01 9:26:56 PM EST, ap-gto@... writes: << That's one of the comments that makes me wonder how much time they really spent with these mounts. With no experience

Whatever that article was, or was pretending to be, it was not a review. From: Jeffrey D. Gortatowsky butchered a or

I just tried it with the 600EGTO while looking at sunspost with the 130 f/8.3. I didn't give it an extensive workout, but it seemed fine. I bought both power supplies so I could separate the dew

The reviewer is not an idiot by any means. I happen to know him as does almost anyone whose attended RTMC. IIRC he's an active ATM and a staff astronomer with JPL. I am not sure what exactly he was

mention of the built-in some something any have no such people, equatorial. degree azimuth its goto of field Robin: I use for my 1200 GoTo the Radio Shack 22-504. It is rated at 13.8V and is