Celestron Advance Series CG-5 Mount

Post by **weixing** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:50 pm

Hi,
Have anyone here got the Celestron Advance Series CG-5 mount?? It look very stable with the 2" tripod legs.

Intended to upgrade my mount, but a Vixen GP with motor drive seem to be too expensive. Please comments.

Thanks and have a nice day.

kayheem · Post by **kayheem** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:23 pm

weixing wrote:Hi,
Have anyone here got the Celestron Advance Series CG-5 mount?? It look very stable with the 2" tripod legs.

Intended to upgrade my mount, but a Vixen GP with motor drive seem to be too expensive. Please comments.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Does the Celestron come with GOTO or just dual axis drives? If no GOTO, you may want to consider the Skywatcher HEQ5

http://www.skywatchertelescope.net/HEQ5.html

Kay Hem

addy · Post by **addy** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:12 pm

Celstron has two flavour of CG5 Advanced series EQ mounts

1) Celestron CG-5 Advanced Series Computerized GoTo EQ Mount (Part #91518)
http://www.buytelescopes.com/product.as ... d=5275&m=1

2) Celestron CG-5 Advanced Series EQ Mount (Part #91517)
http://www.buytelescopes.com/product.as ... d=5276&m=1

The price diff between (1) and (2) is arounf US$360.. Do note that the CG5 EQ (w/o Goto) doesn't include setting circles..

there is a guy on selling C5 with CG5 mount on Yahoo auctions.. Charlie mentioned that his OTA has fungus.. Contact him, you might be able to get his mount.. :-)

Hope that helps.
Addy

Post by **weixing** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:15 pm

Hi,
It is a Non-GOTO version. I also considering the HEQ5, but seem to be a little too heavy and may be overkill. Also, I wonder how much will it cost... the shipping cost may be a bomb!! May be I will ask Jim and Sam.

blurblock · Post by **blurblock** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:49 pm

tell me the price if you get it hor ..... I want to buy a mount too

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blurblock · Post by **blurblock** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:58 pm

Sam is trying to ship something over for USA and Canada (Skywatcher)
http://www.singastro.org/viewtopic.php?t=479

Ask him for the price to ship the Skywatcher HEQ5 mount lor

tommyong · Post by **tommyong** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:47 pm

Hi Weixing,

Yep, I have the Celestron CG5 mount. It comes together with my C8-SGT.
I agree it's very very stable. Much more stable than most I've seen. No worries about toppling or vibrating easily.

However, it's pretty heavy, not because of the 2" legs but the cast-iron mating mount. Can be quite a burden if you want to go lite...

Still, it's worth your consideration...

*cheers*
ToMmY

Post by **weixing** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:47 pm

Hi,
Thanks for your information... I already brought a used Vixen GP mount... very happy.

By the way, how the mount?? Is it smooth?? My main concern previously was the mount performance out of the box... Just heard too much "bad" thing about CG5...

May be you can post a review on the mount in the forum.

Have a nice day and happy Chinese New Year!!

Post by **Airconvent** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:28 am

tommyong wrote:Hi Weixing,

Yep, I have the Celestron CG5 mount. It comes together with my C8-SGT.
I agree it's very very stable. Much more stable than most I've seen. No worries about toppling or vibrating easily.

However, it's pretty heavy, not because of the 2" legs but the cast-iron mating mount. Can be quite a burden if you want to go lite...

Still, it's worth your consideration...

*cheers*
ToMmY

ooh....another scope to play with!

btw, do you need a half pier for operation at our latitudes? does the OTA/counterweights have a chance to hit the mount near zenith?

rich

SingAstro

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