Friday, May 27, 2022

Battery of Telescopes

Battery of Telescopes

In this experiment, a battery of telescopes will attach to the Celestron Nexstar 6SE and mount.

The primary concern is not to overrun the mount's payload capacity which is quoted as 12 pounds.

https://www.celestron.com/blogs/knowledgebase/what-are-the-payload-capacities

The larger telescopes attached to the 6-inch f/10 Celestron OTA will be the Acuter 60mm Maksutov-Cassegrain OTA weighing in at one pound at 8-inches long, and the Orion Optics 80mm f/5 CT-80 refractor achromat doublet OTA at 2.25 lbs and 14.75-inches long. Attaching the telescopes to the Nexstar 6SE will use the Celestron camera mount and another mount
incorporating a Dovetail shoe.
The weight total is 3.25lbs and this leaves some extra load capacity for a finderscope and the add on weight of the extra mountings and accessories like eyepieces and a 90-degree star diagonal. Extra telescopes can take advantage of this extra sturdy mounting and utilize the tracking drive and possibly the goto features and database.