Thursday, April 16, 2020

New Mount setup progressing

On April 2, 2020 I finally decided to 'pull the trigger' and acquire a new, observatory grade mount to replace my ailing CGEM -- the Astro-Physics 1100GTO. Last Friday nine of the ten boxes arrived (the scope attachment hardware arrived on Monday. Took about a couple of days to get all the hardware checked out and the software loaded and tested.

When the Dovetail Plates arrived on Monday I attached the WO GT102 and tested it inside my barn.




Last night, the new mount (with the smaller GT102 OTA) went out under the stars for an initial test run.



So far this mount is proving to be all that was advertised.

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