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Finally complete, including landscaping.
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Shutters open ready for action.
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The LX200 installed.
On the left you can see the wheel sets. Originally I used 50mm rubber tyred wheels. These were no good for supporting the turret in that they compressed under the weight which made it very difficult to start rotating the turret.
These were replaced where possible with nylon wheels. In a couple of places I had to leave the old ones and add an additional nylon wheel as to the left of the scope. These are much better although a little noisier.
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My imaging rig. 150mm f5 Skywatcher refractor with Moonlite focuser. The guide scope is a 120mm f5 Helios refractor with a modified webcam ( now replaced with Meade DSI). The mount is the HEQ5 Pro on a custom adaptor.
Cabling runs from the scope to the box by the seat. This includes mains, active USB and two serial cables for the webcam and the Eqmod adapter which I use to control the mount from the laptop.
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