Bill Cowles has put the dual saddle on his Atlas and it works VERY well. You are correct on the CGEM it does use the wider Losmandy style D type saddle. I believe the Atlas is still using the Vixen (smaller) style. I am not 100% on that. They may have upgraded to the dual saddle. I have looked at a lot of websites and am unable to find the height of the CGEM normal or extended. P.S My wife has no problem any more with my looking at the neighbors. She knows it is like the dogs chasing cars. They wouldn't have any idea what to do with one if they caught one.
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 17:56:14 -0600 From: chuck.hards@gmail.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Atlas or CGEM?
I found a video on You Tube that clearly shows the CGEM mount using the wide dovetail.
I like this. I've always felt that the Orion narrow dovetail was anemic and prone to flexing. Were I to get this mount, I'd need to invest in wider dovetail bars, since I have a boxfull of Orion narrow dovetails.
Has anyone tried the narrow-to-wide dovetail "Adapter"?
On 5/2/10, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, does anyone know if the Celestron and Orion dovetails are the same? Or does Celestron use the wider one?
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