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Re: WANTED CG5-GT RA Drive motor....preferably broken!

galico1952 — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:39:34 GMT

HiTry this guy. Ir have bought stuff from him and he is very good to deal with.Astro Parts Outlet Steve

Re: WANTED CG5-GT RA Drive motor....preferably broken!

Christopher Erickson — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:51:45 GMT

Celestron will be your best bet. A tiny little molded compound spur gear would probably cost you about $250 to be custom-fabricated by one of the various

WANTED CG5-GT RA Drive motor....preferably broken!

Andy Harris — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:47:57 GMT

Due to a shortcut taken while re-assembling my CG5-GT, I managed to break off a tooth in the small white gear located in the front housing of the RA motor.

SkyQuest XT8 Classic with CG-5GT

yeratel72 — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:18:06 GMT

Hi all, Those anyone ever attached the SkyQuest XT8 Classic from Orion to the CG-5 GT, if so what are the pro/cons of doing it regards of performance besides

Re: All Star Polar Alignment

Doug Person — Wed, 15 May 2013 23:50:04 GMT

Steve, You have some very good tips there. I didn't know about AstroTortilla. I have kept my old CG-5 even though I have the new VX. Every time my wife tells

Re: All Star Polar Alignment

galico1952 — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:24:11 GMT

Barry,I do the first 3 steps you mention and get amazing pointing accuracy. My DSO's are usually dead center if I am doing calibration through my camera (Live

Re: All Star Polar Alignment

yeratel72 — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:10:01 GMT

Drift Alignment I think will be your last solution after you do all the process you already mentioned. Regards Pedro

Re: All Star Polar Alignment

bmyomtov — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:12:52 GMT

Thanks I am doing astro photography which is why I I need the all star polar alignment and to optimize pointing accuracy for smaller objects

Re: All Star Polar Alignment

edward magowan — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:58:53 GMT

If you're not doing photography, my personal feeling is you could stop after your second step, then for accurate visual GOTO's just use the precise GOTO

All Star Polar Alignment

bmyomtov — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:51:41 GMT

I have been using my CG-5 with the all star polar alignment and I wanted to make sure I can optimize the polar alignment as well as pointing accuracy. I had

Whirlpool Galaxy

galico1952 — Thu, 02 May 2013 02:21:37 GMT

Hi,I'm pretty happy with the performance of my little Grab and Go CG5. I had no problems getting 5 minute subs of M51. Sure happy I have NexRemote and use

Astro Tortilla

galico1952 — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:38:42 GMT

Hi, I posed a question to another user group regarding how to take an image of the same object over the period of several days. My main question was how do I

Re: Celestron parts from Woodland Hills Camera

edward_magowan — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:16:00 GMT

I called WHC today and Farah was indeed wonderful to talk to, they will send a replacement board. They have a new customer for astro and photo equipment.

Re: Help in tracking

Christopher Erickson — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:18:55 GMT

A polar scope is almost mandatory for astrophotography. And even then you will need to use the drift method to tune it up even better. -Christopher Erickson

Re: Help in tracking

yeratel72 — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:10:11 GMT

Hi Steve, Thanks for the advice, sorry for answer late I just get out of college (was taking SQL class when I received the reply) about when you pointed at the