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Subject: Re: vote by xxx.xxx.137.150 By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.85.73) In Reply to: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.137.150) (Original Vote) Date: 04/07/2018 05:06:08 pm PST >For the money this is an OK mount. It has been discontinued and existing stock is going for ~$1895 as of now Aug 03. This mount has decent stability and quality for visual work and will work for CCD with a bit of work. Never top flight though. THe problem is Celestrons customer service. We just bought our second CI700 (use them for work) because we could make no progress with Celestrons tech support. FIrst mount blew over in high wind and damaged dec assembly. Software dictated that we stick with a CI 700 so I was tasked with repair. Absolutely impossible! Celestron needs to get their act together. I called at least 10 times as well as faxed several. I never got past the hired biscuit answering the phones. Because the expense of new software outweighed the mount we just bought a new mount. THis will not happen again. I would encourage those considering a mount in this catagory to go to Losmandy. I have one of these as my personal mount and can attest that if you call them they will answer the phone, as often as not it's Scott L. answering himself. Subject: Re: vote by xxx.xxx.90.14 By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.85.73) In Reply to: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.90.14) (Original Vote) Date: 04/07/2018 05:15:54 pm PST >Excellent mount. Can easily carry my C8 tube with piggyback 60mm, and DSLR camera. Very low periodic error. Once drift-aligned I can shoot up to 25x without needing to track a guide star. I have mine mounted to an HD Meade field tripod using a Losmandy pier adapter. I've shot at least hundred hours of images with this mount with temps down to 10 deg F. It will be a sad day when this mount quits working. Much more stable than the Losmandy GM8 I had previously. It was a good mount but had more periodic error and could carry less weight. CI-700 is highly recommended, if you can find one! ******************************* I found one with an Astrophysics Starfire 152 F9. OTA that is poorly documented on the net. In late 2017 it went for $3155USD on e-bay. The mount needs connector repairs but the OTA is fine with the AP photographic focussers. Altogether the package is quite nice even if though twenty years old. I'll have to troll for some expertise in getting the mount to function as new, or as a modern GOTO. Page 1 of 1 | ||||||||
