AstroGoods: Standard Solid Mounts

Standard Solid Mounts

Features, construction, materials, etc.
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Mount Type Choice:
See table at upper right.

Telescope Tube Circumference:
Use cloth tape measure, overlap the end.

Telescope Tube Balance Point:

1.	Install heaviest eyepiece combination.
2.	Add finders (optical and 1x) on tube.
3.	Roll tube across broomstick for balance..
4.	Mark approximate balance point with tape.
5.	Measure balance point to back of tube.
6.	Enter measurement here:

Add Setting Circles:

Special request:

Mount Type

Description

Price

SMK

Standard Mount Kit

$254.00

SMF

Standard Mount Finished

$404.00

We can mount your telescope tube in our Standard Mount within the set fitting limits if it uses any bearings like these (or others), or if it has no bearings or has tube rings.

Standard mounts are a preset design and size. For taller and/or wider sizes please see our custom solid or collapsible mounts.

Standard Solid Mounts fit telescopes with:

Tubes up to 13.1" outside diameter (please use a cloth tape measure).
Tube rings up to 13.6" outside flat to outside flat.
Tubes with less than 23" of swing-through room maximum. Measured from the tube's balance point to back/mirror end; see fitting requirements below.

Kits arrive rough sanded. All parts (screws, dowels, teflon, laminate) included. Screw and dowel holes all predrilled and countersunk. Requires fine sanding, paint or finish, glue bearing laminate and assembly.

Add manual setting circles.
The standard mounts includes laser inscribed 12" altitude bearings.
Photo shows our 18" altitude bearing.

Type	Description	Price
SC-AZ	Azimuth Setting Circle	$35
SC-AZ-ALT	Azimuth and Altitude Setting Circle	$70

Standard mount fitting requirements:

Maximum outside telescope tube diameter:

13.10"

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Telescope Tube Circumference. Use a cloth tape measure wrapped around the telescope tube at back/mirror end to obtain the circumference and enter the measurement:

Telescope Tube Balance Point. Your telescope moves up and down in "altitude" using "altitude bearings", one on each side at the telescope tube's balance point. Measure from the center point of the altitude bearing to the back edge of the telescope tube.

If your telescope tube does not have altitude bearings yet, use the balance point instructions at left in green:

Tube mounted in rings? We can add bearings if rings width flat to flat are maximum:

13.60"

Maximum balance point distance (instructions in green below):

23.00"

We can compute your tube's swing through room for you at right. Or use the example computation below.

Determine your balance point by having heaviest eyepiece in focuser, and all finders you use installed. Then roll the tube over a broomstick to see where it wants to balance. Measure from there to the end of the tube.

This example is a 10" outside diameter tube with 20" balance point. If your tube has a protective ring on the back end, use the ring's diameter instead.

1. Determine 1/2 the tube outside diameter: 5".
2. Square that number: 25.
3. Square the 20" balance point dimension: 400.
4. Sum the two squared numbers: 425.
5. Obtain square root of that sum using a calculator: 20.62".

That square root equals the minimum required swing through room for your tube.

7. Add one half inch (or more) to clear azimuth bearing nut: 21.12".
8. In this example, 21.12" fits within the allowed 23" maximum swing through room.

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