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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.    

 

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.    

 

 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.    

 

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.

 

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