I have the Ray's bracket on my C8. It's good, but not great. For visual it's passable, but introduces too much free play for Astrophotography for my liking. If I had to do it again, I would choose a tube ring.
JM2C!
[80% Steve, 20% Alfred] ------- Probability of Clear Skies = (Age of newest equipment in days) / [(Number of observers) * (Total Aperture of all telescopes present in mm)]
Tachyon, are you using the Nexstar 5 or Nexstar 8 fork mount together with the Ray's bracket for your C8? i believe they have different loading capacity :-)
Tachyon wrote:I have the Ray's bracket on my C8. It's good, but not great. For visual it's passable, but introduces too much free play for Astrophotography for my liking. If I had to do it again, I would choose a tube ring.
JM2C!
You are using your C8 with Ray's bracket on which mount? Free play should be an issue from the mount, not the bracket.
I am using the Ray's bracket on a C8i. It is not a fork arm, just a mono-arm.
The free play comes from between the two screw knobs that tightens the scope to the mount. The free play is not in the RA or DEC axis, but rotational along the axis of the scope.
Cheers!
[80% Steve, 20% Alfred] ------- Probability of Clear Skies = (Age of newest equipment in days) / [(Number of observers) * (Total Aperture of all telescopes present in mm)]
so sad...I can't understand what is happening here nowadays. previously, such a good deal would have attracted alot of interest...looks like everybody has either lost interest in the hobby or they are aiming much higher (like > 12.5 ")!
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