The Losmandy G-11 Equatorial Mount from Venturescope
The G-11 Equatorial Mount supports up to 60lb instrument weight!
It includes the head, weight shaft, 21lb
counterweight, adjustable tripod & dual axis digital drive!
G-11 SPECIFICATIONS
R.A. / DEC. AXIS
- All machined aluminum and stainless steel, black anodised.
- All stainless steel hardware.
- One 3.750" diameter needle thrust bearing.
- One 2.000" diameter needle thrust bearing.
- Two 1.500" diameter needle bearings..
- 5.625" diameter, 7075 aluminum worm gear, 360 tooth.
- Dual supported, ball bearing housed stainless steel worm-heat treated and ground.
- Variable slip clutch, both axes. One knob design.
- 1.250" diameter stainless steel shafts.
- Fully locking, unique tangent arm design altitude adjustment, 14-64 degrees, large knob for easy alignment. (8-68 degrees with small modification).
- Laser engraved latitude scale in 2 degree increments.
- Single knob azimuth control, bidirectional +/- 8.5 degree.
- 5.000" diameter laser engraved setting circles, 4 minute R.A., vernier reading to 1 minute / 1 degrees DEC., vernier reading to 0.1 degree. R.A. circle engraved for Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
- Porter slip ring design.
- 160 oz/in stepper motor, 0.5 arc sec. step.
- Dovetail saddle-plate allows for the interchanging of any tube assembly-reduces need for DEC. weights.
- Removable stainless steel weight shaft w/safety knob.
- 21 lb counterweight.
- 7 lb and 11 lb extra counterweights available.
- Through the axis polar scope, works in Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Polar scope optional.
- Instrument weight capacity 60 lbs.
- Equatorial head weight 36 lbs.
TRIPOD:
- All machined aluminum, black anodised, powder coated.
- Tripod height, adjustable from 33" - 48"
- Removable leg design for easy transporting.
- Tripod weight 35 lbs.
- All heights are to top of tripod
- Add 10" @ 34 degrees to centre of DEC.-R.A. junction
- Add 7" from DEC.-R.A. junction to top of saddle
DUAL-AXIS ELECTRONICS:
- Diamond push button pattern.
- R.A. and DEC. reversing switches.
- Three guiding rates; 30%, 50% and 2x sidereal rate.
- Three setting rates; 4x, 8x,16x sidereal rate.
- Quartz tracking rates: sidereal, solar, lunar, king.
- Periodic Error Correction (PEC).
- Programmable DEC. Backlash Compensation (TVC).
- Control panel dimmer.
- Accepts auto-guider systems.
- Northern and Southern Hemisphere operation.
- 12 volt DC - 500ma power use.
- Tiltable control panel for easy access.
- Small hand control box for comfortable use.
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Price of G11 Mount: Equatorial Head, Digital Drive, Weight-Shaft, Tripod and 21lb Weight: £2159.00 Price of G11 Mount (as above less Digital Drives) with Gemini system: £3350.00 |
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You are welcome to
contact us to ask for a quote for your Losmandy mount with the optical tube of your choice and to
discuss your requirements
for accessories and mounting options.
We will advise you about any extra adaptor plates, counterweights etc.. that you need to mount your telescope tube on this wonderful mount ! |
If this mount is too big, then check out the
Losmandy GM-8 Mount
or if it's too small then look at the
Losmandy HGM-TITAN Mount
or check out the forthcoming
GoTo system
for all the Losmandy Mounts