Re: [APML] call for suggestion

[Alen Koebel <alen_koebel@yahoo.ca>]

 --- Tim Hart <Tim.Hart@haworth.com> wrote: 

> I'm a member of the LXD55telescopes group on
> Yahoo....the SN's owners go round and round on the
> best way to align this and that.  It's crazy!  If
> the time and effort are put into it....it's a great
> scope...I just wanted the great scope minus the
> effort :)

The high number of alignment "woes" voiced on the 
LXD-55 Yahoo! group migh be because these scopes
attract a fair number of people with little prior
experience with telescopes, in particular with
Newtonians or catadioptic scopes (like SC's) that 
do not have factory-set collimation. 

[snip] 
> Either way I'd love to see some great Photos come
> out of these.!

So would I. I've seen some great CCD images (by
Paul LeFevre: www.lefevre.darkhorizons.org) but I 
have yet to see any deep-sky film photos taken 
through them. I am working on processing and posting
some fairly recent photos taken through my MTS-SN6,
but although it's the direct ancestor of the LXD55
version it's not really the same scope.

BTW, for the benefit of others here, Paul LeFevre
reported in the LXD55telescopes group that his
LXD55 mount (which I believe he sold, since he
uses the OTA on a G11) had about 35 arc-seconds 
of PE. That, in my opinion and based on my own
experience, would be manually guidable if not for
the fact that it also had several sudden jumps.
Because of manufacturing variance, all LXD55 mounts
won't behave as badly as this, but you could as 
easily get a worse one than a better one.
  

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