{"id":578,"date":"2011-04-06T20:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T00:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2013-12-30T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:27:10","slug":"orion-ed80t-cf-mounted-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Orion ED80T-CF mounted and balanced."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ADM Losmandy 11&#8243; universal plate came in today. Mounted the clamshell rings right onto it, perfect spacing, just where I wanted it. Tossed it on the mount, added the 3lbs of counterweight to the front, balanced both axes, and voila &#8211; done. Focuser drawtube extended 1\/2&#8243; past rough focus just to make sure I have some wiggle room in balancing. Here&#8217;s a bunch of pics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-580\" title=\"DSC_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-581\" title=\"DSC_0002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0003.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-582\" title=\"DSC_0003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-583\" title=\"DSC_0004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-584\" title=\"DSC_0005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-585\" title=\"DSC_0006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-586\" title=\"DSC_0007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" title=\"DSC_0008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-588\" title=\"DSC_0009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ADM Losmandy 11&#8243; universal plate came in today. Mounted the clamshell rings right onto it, perfect spacing, just where I wanted it. Tossed it on the mount, added the 3lbs of counterweight to the front, balanced both axes, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=578\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography-and-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Ogee-9k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}