Tele Vue Mounts from Venturescope
The Tele Pod Mount
from Tele Vue
This superb mount, shown here cradling a Tele Vue Telescope, is yet another excellent well designed piece of kit to come from Tele Vue to increase your options and enhance your enjoyment.
Ideal for travelling with the smaller Tele Vue scopes, this complete Alt-Az mounting system weighs in at a mere 7lbs! Catering for you, wherever you use it, the telescope can be set anywhere between 28 inches to 62 inches - and if you bump into it in the dark you'll thank the person who thought of covering the black anodised aluminium legs with foam! What's more it's suitable for all surfaces as each rubber-tipped foot can retract to enable you to use a metal ground spike - AND it's got a built in bubble level so you can be sure your mount is set up precisely!
And now for the really clever bit.... The centre column can be used either way up, and one end has a 1/4-20 stud and the other end is a removable 3/8-16 stud base! So, you can mount your Tele Vue scope one end, or invert the centre column and then you have an excellent tripod for standard fitting still or video cameras!
The Yoke & Cradle type mount head balances your scope at its centre of gravity and a delrin stop prevents your valuable telescope tipping and bashing the mount head.
Price £295.00
Panoramic and Gibraltar Mounts
Tele Vue Make their own mounts for their telescopes. These mounts balance scopes at their centres of gravity to provide "Dobsonian-like" smoothness, avoiding camera tripods' image sag and equatorial mounts' heavy counter weights. The anodised aluminum head always positions eyepieces conveniently upright and features adjustable tension on the brass altitude bearings and azimuth shaft bushing. Solid wood legs and accessory tray dampen vibration.
Supplied in Ash or Walnut with brass fittings, these mounts are not only very nice to look AT, but give a solid and sturdy base for you to look THROUGH your telescope, while still being light enough to be quite portable.
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| Ash Gibraltar Mount | Walnut Gibraltar Mount |
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| Wood | Ash | Walnut | Ash | Walnut |
| Weight | 17lbs | 20lbs | 10lbs | 11lbs |
| Height Range | 3ft - 5ft | |||
| Swing Range | +85 to -10 degrees | +85 to -17 degrees | ||
| Price | £495.00 | £575.00 | £425.00 | £525.00 |
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Gibraltar 5 Mount
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The Biggest and the Strongest of all!
The most stable of all Tele Vue mounts, the Gibraltar 5 will cope with the full range of Televue telescopes up to and including the TVNP127! By varying the length of the legs, the telescope height can be set anywhere from about 36" to 60" Price £699.00 Review your shopping basket |
Skysensor Computer for
Tele Vue Mounts
You can have all these fantastic mounts fitted with Tele Vue's own computer...
The compact size and simplicity of our Sky Tour computer belie its power and elegant
functionality. It creates a unified system with all the Tele Vue Mounts, that is easy for
everyone to carry, set-up and use successfully. The Sky Tour is easy for you to learn and
comes with a field guide which includes star charts and a full listing of
the objects in the computer database.
Al Nagler says "With this information and the exceptional performance range of Tele Vue telescopes, both novice and advanced amateurs can stretch their observing experience with every session."
The Sky Tour Observing System is complete with easy to follow set-up, operating and database guides and is topped off with a FREE copy of The Deep Sky Observer's Guide by Phil Harrington. Guide to Deep Sky Observing which includes a complete star atlas.
The 2000+ objects are organized into six catalogs: NGC (New General Cat.), M (Messier), IC (Index Cat.), ST Star), NS (Non-Standard), and PL (Planets). For quick reference, an additional FAV catalog is available to store 250 of your favourite objects.
You can buy any of the Tele Vue mounts with the Sky Tour system fitted, or you can buy the components to fit to a Tele Vue mount you already own - please check that your mount has the fittings to take the Sky Tour System - Tele Vue used to sell mounts with and without these fittings! (Since April 1999 ALL Tele Vue mounts have been manufactured with Sky Tour fittings)
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| Sky Tour Computer | £225.00 |
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| Sky Tour Caddy Plate | £19.00 |
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| Eyepiece Caddy Set | £45.00 |
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| Encoders for All Current Mounts | £195.00 |
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| Encoders for Old Style Gibraltar Mount | £225.00 |
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