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17 years 5 months ago #48387 by Frank Ryan
What mount is this? was created by Frank Ryan

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17 years 5 months ago #48390 by carlobeirnes
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Hi Frank

Schmidt-Cassegrain German Equatorial Mount
356mm (14") Diameter Aperture
3910mm Focal Length (f/11)
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9x50 Finderscope
26mm (150x) and 40mm (98x) Multi-Coated 1.25" Eyepieces
2" Mirror Diagonal with 1.25" Adapter
40,000+ Object Database
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17 years 5 months ago #48392 by dave_lillis
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I think he was on about the make and model of the mount itself, which I don't recognise at the angle.

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17 years 5 months ago #48394 by carlobeirnes
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This is the mount that celestron had before they produced the CGE range.

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17 years 5 months ago #48399 by michaeloconnell
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I can't say for sure which mount that is Frank as the image is small, but my money would be on the Losmandy G11 with Gemini GOTO. Losmandy made this mount and Celestron sold it combined with their larger scopes. These date back to the early 90s. For more info:
www.company7.com/library/celestron/cg11rv.html
From what little I know about it, these were rated pretty good. In general, Losmandy make good mounts and Celestron scopes have good optics. This would therefore seem to be a good pairing. However, if it's something you're in the market for, you'd obviously need to dig a little deeper and find out for sure. This partnership between Losmandy and Celestron doesn't exist any more unfortunately, but of course you could buy the two separately.
Hope this helps,

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17 years 5 months ago #48472 by Jed Glover
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Does not look like a GM-11, could be a GM-8 though. The tripod does not appear to be original, and compered to the losmandy one a bit flimsey.

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