If you want to use a 50mm finderscope as a guidescope, you would also need a platform that enables you to point the finderscope at a bright guide star.
This lightweight base can be used for small finderscopes as a...
Features full alt-azimuth control for quick and precise alignment of guidescope with main telescope. Standard Sky-Watcher/Vixen dovetail saddle plate. Fits onto Sky-Watcher tube ring via camera mounting bracket....
Sky-Watcher's EVOGUIDE-50ED is the ultimate new high quality 50 mm doublet ED Guidescope, utilising Ohara S-FPL53 glass for the ED element. With a focal length of 242 mm it has a very fast focal ratio of f/4.8. The...
Features full alt-azimuth control for quick and precise alignment of guidescope with main telescope. Standard Sky-Watcher/Vixen dovetail saddle plate. Fits onto Sky-Watcher tube ring via camera mounting bracket....
ZWO OAG Adapter features
Lightweight and beautifully machined
16.5mm thickness
Large prism: 8*8mm
Allows the use of a guide camera in off axis position next to the main imaging camera without the need...
The new, much stronger hardware enables the new self-learning AI multistar guiding, the large color display makes operation more pleasant and with the new quick start function ("push one button") guiding starts with...
Baader 140 ° swivel Off Axis Guider (OAG) with T2 thread connection. This OAG was developed especially for the RCC I Rowe Coma Corrector (for Newtonian Telescopes). Using this OAG and a Baader T ring, you can guide any...
ASA Adaptor to M48 - 2" Filterthread for 3" WYNNE Corrector and 3" Reducer of ASA and TS Gigant Off Axis Guider. Adaptor to M48x0,75 male / 2" Filterthread - very short - only 4mm lengh
The Off-Axis Guider is an essential astroimaging accessory for long focal length telescopes that require the most accurate guiding possible. The Celestron Off-Axis Guider uses a prism to intercept a small portion of the tel...
Designed for use with CCD and DSLR cameras, this low profile Off-Axis guider is a convenient alternative to using a separate conventional guide scope for astrophotography, offering several advantages. Brighter, higher...
This adaptor fits on almost all Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes and many Maksutov-Cassegrains, it adapts to the 2" filter thread. Converts a male SC thread into a male M48 (2") filter thread. Fits to almost all SC...
The adapter is produced especially for these two off-axis guiders. It allows connecting of Canon EOS cameras by the EOS bayonet. This adapter allows for connecting Canon EOS DSLR cameras to the TS Optics off-axis guiders...
TS Optics TSOAG9 ultrashort off-axis guider for astrophotography The short TSOAG9 off-axis guider is a development from Teleskop Service. It can be used with almost every telescope and substitutes the guiding scope. Guiding...
T2 - M48 Ring for the NEW M48 Lacerta Off-Axis GuiderSometimes customers buy it for other use as well...basically, it is a expanding ring with T-2 female and M48 male thread. It converts M48 female into T-2 female thread....
A quick message for those who might have thought to miss this promotion is that due to the fact that 1 Jan was a bank holiday followed by a weekend, we decided to end it on the morning on the first working day of the year: 9am on Monday, 4 January 2021.
So from now you will still have about 36-37 hours to make a decision... The following camera are in this promotion:
ASI071MC-PRO (APS-C sized),
ASI6200MC-PRO (full frame) ASI6200MM-PRO (full frame) and various bundles with this monochrome camera,
ASi2400MC-PRO (full frame, large pixels),
ASI1600GT (with built-in filter wheel),
ASI183GT (with built-in filter wheel),
ASI2600MC-PRO (APS-C sized) (one of the most popular cameras these days),
ASI533MC-PRO (smaller square filter, but extremely popular) ASI1600MMP-KIT3 (this is the only camera that will stay on promotion till stocks last),
ASI462MC-PRO (currently the best and most popular planetary camera due to its extreme sensitivity in near IR),
ASI120MC-S and ASI120MM-S (no introduction needed - our longest selling planetary imagers and guide cameras),
and finally but not lastly at all: ASIAIR PRO (and BUNDLES) - the must have all rounder astro photographer's brain and power center for your ZWO camera: for aligning, locating, guiding and imaging, etc. - all in one...
Hope you can find something on the above list that might be worth considering!
Fitting a 2-inch BDS-RT Baader Diamond Steeltrack Focuser to a Teleskop-Service GSO 8-inch Ritchey-Chretien
Background
The TS 8-inch RC has M90x1mm connections at the focuser end of the scope. My setup has a TS
50mm extension adapter with for 6- & 8-inch RC connected to the scope (TS part no: GSRCV50),
to accommodate the long back-focus.
Attached to this is a TS M90 tilting adapter flange (TS part no: GSRCJ90). This is an aid to
collimation and allows the long axis of the focuser to be aligned with the optical axis of the scope.
I then have a standard TS monorail focuser for the RC, again with an M90x1 connection.
Image 1 shows the 50mm extension and tilting flange, with the old focuser removed. Note the M90
male thread at the end of the flange, to which the focuser connects.
Fitting the Baader Diamond Steeltrack RT
It is assumed that the reader has access to the Steeltrack manual and has purchased the necessary
RT-Adapter M90x1 Diamond Steeltrack (Baader part nu...
PLEASE READ IT! IMPORTANT! COVID-19 and STOCK AVAILABITITY INFO:
Please note that currently we receive about 10 times more phone calls, 3-4 times as many emails, orders etc. whilst we work with reduced staff, so please be patient.
PRICE CHANGE!!! We've received new pricelists for BRESSER, EXPLORE SCIENTIFIC, LUNT and VIXEN products receintly. It will take several days to update the prices, so we cannot guarantee to acceptance of orders for these brands at the current prices. We would recommend to wait till Monday, 18 January to place any orders (or call us to confirm the price and availability before ordering).
PLEASE CONTACT US TO CHECK CURRENT AVAILABILITY BEFORE YOU ORDER ANY SKYWATCHER, CELESTRON, BAADER, BRESSER, LUNT, TS and ZWO PRODUCTS (and possibly some others as well), AS STOCK LEVELS FLUCTUATE AND WE JUST CANNOT UPDATE THE LEVELS IN REAL TIME...
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