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The Box arrived in one piece, thanks to the mailman and Astro DK! The packing looks pretty standard, 2 box with fome inserts mutch like Celestronīs. |

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No RC logo on this one, only the vendor logo "Astro". www.2astro.dk/ |

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Large focus knob compared to Celestron style and the mirror lock knob is a new feature to me. |

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LX200R logo on the mounting rail, the "R" beeing a dying breed in favor of the ACF term. |

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UHTC = Ultra-High Transmission coatings, optimizing the visual, photographic, and CCD imaging performance of Meade telescopes. |

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The business end looks clean and the coating is clearly visible with the naked eye, but not on this photo .-) |

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FAT boy weighs in at 12,2 kg with rail but is acctualy feels lighter and handling it feels like the C9.25. |

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This is the sliding part of the Meade rail. The bolt layout does not fit any holes on my losmandy dovertail. The hand knobs is pressing on a metal rail, mutch like a compression style adapter. It is clearly a wimpy construction and the danger is that the scope suddenly falls of. The mounted rail on the scope is also a inferior design and you can see it moves if you apply a little hand force. I am going to purchase a DM10 from Losmandy to replace this. |

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I realized that the two center bolt holes was somthing like the Takahashi EM-200 and made the holes a little bigger to fit perfect. I am still going for a Losmandy dovertail for the easy changing of scopes. |

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I am still going for a Losmandy dovertail later for the ease of changing scopes and a more robust solution. But this does it for now, time to mount the scope. |

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Mounted, the blue and white goes well together, the EM-200 seems to manage the scope well and still feels solid when I shake the scope. My fear of the rail system beeing to weak was just, when I shaked the scope the rail/dovertail sytem slipped and I did manage to see it before it fell to the floor.... BEWARE OF SCOPE DROPPING SUDDENLY !!! |

| Scope balanced with 3 CV. I have some room left on the shaft but this will soon be gone when mounting guidescope and camera. I have to get me another CV. |

| Guidescope MiniBorg 60ED and DSI proII mounted with Scopestuff toprail and rings. I am anxious to test if this is stable enough for guiding at f/10. |

| Canon 350D imager mounted in OPT SCT to 2" adapter and Scopestuff 2" tube T-ring. This setup gives me 0.53 arcsec/pix. I have the AP 0.67 reducer on its way and with that I will have 0.79 arcsec/pix.with DSLR and 0.91 with my Artemis CCD. |