Modifications and Accessories

• 2-D balance weight - description (commercial)
• 210XT Alignment Aid
• 416XT; Chip Icing - descriptive article
• 416XT; disassembly
• 416XT/616XT; Idiot's Guide to Using - descriptive article
• 416XT; re-assembly
• 416XT; notes on thermoelectric cooling
• 416XT Cable clamp
• 416XT CCD Images (taken through the LX200)
• 416XT CCD Images (taken using 35mm Camera Lenses)
• Adapter for mounting bayonet camera lenses on 416XT
• Adjustable Eyepiece Extention Tube for the Lumicon GEG
• Alt-Azimuth guidescope mount (commercial; description and fitting)
• Astrophotos
• Balancing the LX200 - descriptive article (incomplete)
• Ball-bearing support for LX200 primary mirror - descriptive article
• Binoviewer (home-made)
• Collimation Aids
• Collimation: instructions for fitting custom adjustment knobs
• Colour Filter Wheel
• Combined slide-prism and filter carrier in one unit
• Cooling Fan for LX200
• Cooling Fans for 12" Newtonian
• Corrector Plate Heater
• Corrector Plate Removal and Cleaning, LX200 (instructions)
• Counterbalance System - descriptive article
• Dovetail Bars - description (commercial)
• Dovetail Bars - Fitting instructions (commercial)
• DriCap for LX OTAs - description (commercial)
• 'DriCap' Moisture-absorbing Dustcap
• Engineering - intro to basic home engineering - index page
• Equatorial Mount (GEM) - construction article
• Field tripod modifications - descriptive article
• Field Tripod Modification
• Finder Bracket (replacement)
• Finder for 12" Newtonian
• Guidescope Mounting Rings - description (commercial)
• Laser Collimator
• Modifications to prevent 'mirror-flop' - descriptive article
• MX5-C Colour CCD Images
• Pier, construction - descriptive article
• Price list for some of these accessories
• Slide-mirror unit
• Slide-filter carrier
• Solar filter holder (for Mylar or Baader Astrosolar film)
• Star Diagonal (home-made)
• SuperWedge Eyepiece Rack
• SuperWedge upgrade kit - fitting instructions (commercial)
• SuperWedge upgrade - descriptive article
• Telescopes used for CCD imaging (pics)
• Tripod - 'Stasis', home built full-height tripod (descriptive article)
• Tripod - 'Stubby', home built short tripod (descriptive article)
• Telrad Dew-Shield
• Using a 2-hole mask to aid focussing - descriptive article
• Using 35mm camera lenses on 416XT - descriptive article
• Variable electric-focusser for LX200 - descriptive article
• Wired LED adapter for illuminated eyepiece
• Worm gears - for telescope drives, article describing how to machine them

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