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First of all, sorry about my english. I'm Spanish and I don't know very much
english. I have a Celestron C-8 in a EQ5 equivalent mount by Celestron, the CG5. I am searching a quality mount for my telescope, but here, in Sapin, they are very expensive. An example is the Losmandy G-11. Here is arround 3000$ (without computer, only mount + field tripod). Another example is the Meade LXD-650. Here is arround 4500? (US$ 5500 or 6000) (with the computer, same as LX200 computer). A friend of mine sells this mount (Meade's one) at 2600? (arround US$ 3000 or 3500). Do you think this mount is really good and quality? Thanks for all |
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"José Manuel Taverner Torres" wrote in message . es... First of all, sorry about my english. I'm Spanish and I don't know very much english. I have a Celestron C-8 in a EQ5 equivalent mount by Celestron, the CG5. I am searching a quality mount for my telescope, but here, in Sapin, they are very expensive. An example is the Losmandy G-11. Here is arround 3000$ (without computer, only mount + field tripod). Another example is the Meade LXD-650. Here is arround 4500? (US$ 5500 or 6000) (with the computer, same as LX200 computer). A friend of mine sells this mount (Meade's one) at 2600? (arround US$ 3000 or 3500). Do you think this mount is really good and quality? Thanks for all No. The G-11, beats it by more than the price difference!. The GP-DX (though a smaller mount), is better than the LXD by a big margin... The LXD-650, is a very cheaply made/assembled piece of kit. I have seen four, and _none_ was complete, or working properly 'out of the box', and all needed a lot of work to get working reasonably well (the PE is still worse than the GP-DX). Best Wishes |
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If you going use a C-8 , a GP or GP-DX is would be an excellent mount for
it. You can buy a GP mount on Astromart, for $600-$700 with Vixen drives. GP-DX is more, maybe $1200, than ship it to Europe, for $100. I think the G-11 is an over kill, unless you planning to use a heavier OTA, like a C-11. Check out the Hungarian(close to Spain), Andras's G-41 mount for 3000 Euro, looks like a very nice mount. Very accurate, handles a C-11. Seen it here in the US as Demo, impressive. Look at those 6" worm gears. http://www.astronomy.hu/ Julius "Roger Hamlett" wrote in message ... "José Manuel Taverner Torres" wrote in message . es... First of all, sorry about my english. I'm Spanish and I don't know very much english. I have a Celestron C-8 in a EQ5 equivalent mount by Celestron, the CG5. I am searching a quality mount for my telescope, but here, in Sapin, they are very expensive. An example is the Losmandy G-11. Here is arround 3000$ (without computer, only mount + field tripod). Another example is the Meade LXD-650. Here is arround 4500? (US$ 5500 or 6000) (with the computer, same as LX200 computer). A friend of mine sells this mount (Meade's one) at 2600? (arround US$ 3000 or 3500). Do you think this mount is really good and quality? Thanks for all No. The G-11, beats it by more than the price difference!. The GP-DX (though a smaller mount), is better than the LXD by a big margin... The LXD-650, is a very cheaply made/assembled piece of kit. I have seen four, and _none_ was complete, or working properly 'out of the box', and all needed a lot of work to get working reasonably well (the PE is still worse than the GP-DX). Best Wishes |
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Thanks for all, Szaki
"Szaki" escribió en el mensaje news:zCf2c.125597$4o.166003@attbi_s52... If you going use a C-8 , a GP or GP-DX is would be an excellent mount for it. You can buy a GP mount on Astromart, for $600-$700 with Vixen drives. GP-DX is more, maybe $1200, than ship it to Europe, for $100. I think the G-11 is an over kill, unless you planning to use a heavier OTA, like a C-11. Check out the Hungarian(close to Spain), Andras's G-41 mount for 3000 Euro, looks like a very nice mount. Very accurate, handles a C-11. Seen it here in the US as Demo, impressive. Look at those 6" worm gears. http://www.astronomy.hu/ Julius |
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For what?
JS "Gembol" wrote in message . es... Thanks for all, Szaki "Szaki" escribió en el mensaje news:zCf2c.125597$4o.166003@attbi_s52... If you going use a C-8 , a GP or GP-DX is would be an excellent mount for it. You can buy a GP mount on Astromart, for $600-$700 with Vixen drives. GP-DX is more, maybe $1200, than ship it to Europe, for $100. I think the G-11 is an over kill, unless you planning to use a heavier OTA, like a C-11. Check out the Hungarian(close to Spain), Andras's G-41 mount for 3000 Euro, looks like a very nice mount. Very accurate, handles a C-11. Seen it here in the US as Demo, impressive. Look at those 6" worm gears. http://www.astronomy.hu/ Julius |
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For the information about G-41. I have seen it and now I can think more
about mounts. "Szaki" escribió en el mensaje news:9mo2c.191155$uV3.789699@attbi_s51... For what? JS "Gembol" wrote in message . es... Thanks for all, Szaki "Szaki" escribió en el mensaje news:zCf2c.125597$4o.166003@attbi_s52... If you going use a C-8 , a GP or GP-DX is would be an excellent mount for it. You can buy a GP mount on Astromart, for $600-$700 with Vixen drives. GP-DX is more, maybe $1200, than ship it to Europe, for $100. I think the G-11 is an over kill, unless you planning to use a heavier OTA, like a C-11. Check out the Hungarian(close to Spain), Andras's G-41 mount for 3000 Euro, looks like a very nice mount. Very accurate, handles a C-11. Seen it here in the US as Demo, impressive. Look at those 6" worm gears. http://www.astronomy.hu/ Julius |
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I seen it at CallStar last year.
Julius "Gembol" wrote in message . es... For the information about G-41. I have seen it and now I can think more about mounts. "Szaki" escribió en el mensaje news:9mo2c.191155$uV3.789699@attbi_s51... For what? JS "Gembol" wrote in message . es... Thanks for all, Szaki "Szaki" escribió en el mensaje news:zCf2c.125597$4o.166003@attbi_s52... If you going use a C-8 , a GP or GP-DX is would be an excellent mount for it. You can buy a GP mount on Astromart, for $600-$700 with Vixen drives. GP-DX is more, maybe $1200, than ship it to Europe, for $100. I think the G-11 is an over kill, unless you planning to use a heavier OTA, like a C-11. Check out the Hungarian(close to Spain), Andras's G-41 mount for 3000 Euro, looks like a very nice mount. Very accurate, handles a C-11. Seen it here in the US as Demo, impressive. Look at those 6" worm gears. http://www.astronomy.hu/ Julius |
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I have bought the one Andras himself was using. Nice mount, good
looking, track well, relatively easy to fine tune. But I also got his new Pular drive controller (instead of the FS-2) which had some inital teething problem. It is quite nice now. See my site at http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~s032212/ for pics taken with it. But it has been developed into two version (observery and portable.) Edward Tam On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:17:50 GMT, "Szaki" wrote: I seen it at CallStar last year. Julius "Gembol" wrote in message .es... For the information about G-41. I have seen it and now I can think more about mounts. "Szaki" escribi? en el mensaje news:9mo2c.191155$uV3.789699@attbi_s51... For what? JS "Gembol" wrote in message . es... Thanks for all, Szaki "Szaki" escribi? en el mensaje news:zCf2c.125597$4o.166003@attbi_s52... If you going use a C-8 , a GP or GP-DX is would be an excellent mount for it. You can buy a GP mount on Astromart, for $600-$700 with Vixen drives. GP-DX is more, maybe $1200, than ship it to Europe, for $100. I think the G-11 is an over kill, unless you planning to use a heavier OTA, like a C-11. Check out the Hungarian(close to Spain), Andras's G-41 mount for 3000 Euro, looks like a very nice mount. Very accurate, handles a C-11. Seen it here in the US as Demo, impressive. Look at those 6" worm gears. http://www.astronomy.hu/ Julius ________________________ | | | Edward Tam, | | | | | |________________________| |
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And, I ask myself, it not cheaper to buy a Celestron CGE800 (3499 $) or the
CGE925 (3799$) ? Custom may be the 4,5 % or 0 % if you manage clevery, and the ship may be something 300 to 400 $ to spain. That make and amount of less than 4000 euro. Celestron is " importable" from usa, Meade is not Mike "José Manuel Taverner Torres" escribió en el mensaje . es... First of all, sorry about my english. I'm Spanish and I don't know very much english. I have a Celestron C-8 in a EQ5 equivalent mount by Celestron, the CG5. I am searching a quality mount for my telescope, but here, in Sapin, they are very expensive. An example is the Losmandy G-11. Here is arround 3000$ (without computer, only mount + field tripod). Another example is the Meade LXD-650. Here is arround 4500? (US$ 5500 or 6000) (with the computer, same as LX200 computer). A friend of mine sells this mount (Meade's one) at 2600? (arround US$ 3000 or 3500). Do you think this mount is really good and quality? Thanks for all |
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