Questar on GoTo Mount
The Covid-19 stay-at-home order for Maryland has provided me with additional time to work out a few kinks that normally would have been put on the back burner. One of these was to figure out if I could take my new “Standard” Questar 3.5-inch telescope and use it on a German Equatorial mount that can automatically find and point to objects in the night sky (GoTo). I have converted my old Celestron Advanced VX-telescope mount to accept the Questar, by upgrading the mounting-head and using a wide dove-plate. Preliminary tests (three-nights), under the stars, have proven promising. The ease of use has increased a 100-fold and it costed me less than $250 to modify.
Questar on GoTo Mount
The Covid-19 stay-at-home order for Maryland has provided me with additional time to work out a few kinks that normally would have been put on the back burner. One of these was to figure out if I could take my new “Standard” Questar 3.5-inch telescope and use it on a German Equatorial mount that can automatically find and point to objects in the night sky (GoTo). I have converted my old Celestron Advanced VX-telescope mount to accept the Questar, by upgrading the mounting-head and using a wide dove-plate. Preliminary tests (three-nights), under the stars, have proven promising. The ease of use has increased a 100-fold and it costed me less than $250 to modify.