[AZ-Observing] Re: Sentinel Zip
- From: Ray & Nora Toscano <toscano1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Stan Gorodenski <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:28:40 -0500 (EST)
Many people replace the handles on their larger Meade SCT's with Peterson
Engineering's Get-A-Grip handles. Here's a link...
http://www.petersonengineering.com/SkyDiv/get-a-grip.htm
I don't have a large Meade SCT myself, but I've heard these really do make them
easier to handle.
Ray
On Thu, Dec 1, 2005 at 9:22 AM, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
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>
> George Barber wrote:
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> >Yes, thanks Andrew! The 12" classic is specified to weigh in at 75 pounds.
> >
> >
>
> All I can say is - Wow! I would never have guessed they weighed that
> much because my Dall-Kirkham has a heavy full thickness 2" mirror, a
> mirror mount make of steel tubing, a heavy 2"+ diameter focus tube, and
> a 3/16" thick telescope tube made of rolled fiberglass cloth. Since the
> LX200 doesn't have all these heavy features, and the tube is shorter
> than my telescope, I wonder why it is so heavy? Just a rhetorical
> question. Next time I see an LX200 I'll have to look into it some more
> (if I remember by then - it is not a high priority thought).
> Stan
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