Darren Addy wrote: > I'm curious what eyepieces you got with it? (Brand and focal length)
I got the two original Pentax eyepieces, a 6mm orthoscopic and a 20mm kellner. > I can't answer your question directly, but pics would help and I'd > recommend asking in an astronomy/astrophotography forum. I'd recommend > a European forum, since most of the scopes were sold there. Request to join the Norwegian astroforum is now submitted, thanks. :-) > In general, equatorial mounts were often sold with RA (right > ascention) motors only, or with a two-motor set-up with a motor also > on the declination drive. > I'm guessing that the threaded holes are, as you suspect, for the > optional dec drive but not sure what "off the shelf" model would bolt > on there. Thanks! Sounds like there's a faint hope I might figure this one out! That's great news. For the record I've put up a pic of the details on the mount here: http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/EquatorialHole.jpg > In any event, if you have the scope/mount properly polar aligned, the > dec motor would not normally be needed for visual use, while the RA > motor works to keep things in view as the earth turns beneath the > night sky. Dang... With 50% chance of picking the right option I'm always 100% sure to pick the wrong one. :-) Telltale sign of a newbie, I suppose, that I'm not able to tell the RA and DEC axes apart consistently. You are absolutely correct, it's the RA axis I'm curious about. Thanks for putting me right. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
