[APML]: Celestar 8" with 300mm

["giovanni casano" <casano@docline.it>]

My problem is the weight on the mounth to forcella (. in fact inserting a
weight on top of the telescope the mounth of the Celestar 8 also ruins him
(straight the motodec doesn't work well). Currently I can not buy a G11(Like
the friend Vannini suggests me) because in Italy it costs £5.500.000 (around
$3090).
Giovanni.
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Wil Milan <wmilan@airdigital.com>
A: astro-photo@nightsky.com <astro-photo@nightsky.com>
Data: venerd́ 23 gennaio 1998 1.32
Oggetto: Re: R: [APML]: Mirror Flop


>
>giovanni casano wrote:
>
>> I have a telescope Celestron Celestar 8" and using one cloths Nikkor
300mm
>> f/2.8 I weight the mount, creating problems to the guide of the
telescope.
>> Even if satisfactions in photo are excellent I am afraid to ruin the
>> fitting: How to do?
>> Thanks.
>> Excuse me for mine bad English.
>> (Giovanni Casano Pisa Italy)  casano@docline.it
>
>Giovanni,
>
>Is the problem that when you put the 300mm lens on top of the Celestar it
is
>unbalanced and because of the unbalance it is difficult to guide? If that
is
>the problem then you need to put weights on the Celestar tube so it
balances
>the 300mm lens. Celestron sells weights you can put on the telescope to
>balance it, but I think those weights will be too small because the 300mm
lens
>is very heavy.
>
>On my 11" Celestron I had the same problem. I solved the problem by making
two
>1.5 kg weights. The two weights together are enough to balance a large lens
on
>top of the telescope.
>
>
>Wil Milan
>--
>"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the
>stars which You have set in place, what is Man that you are
>mindful of him, or the son of Man that you care for him?"  -- Psalm 8
>
>