{"id":668,"date":"2011-06-12T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2013-12-30T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:27:10","slug":"668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"New setup for Lodestar —> AT72ED."},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate those Chinese made dual screw extension tubes, and I didn’t like the way the Lodestar was gripped by the 1.25″ one at the end of the chain.<\/p>\n

So, I bought both of these pieces:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.scopestuff.com\/ss_c2bf.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

And this:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.astronomytechnologies.com\/product.asp?id=17012&c=0<\/a><\/p>\n

I had a 2″ long 2″ extension (2 screw, brass compression ring) already, forgot where I got it, so here’s the full chain now. Much more rigid than before. Here’s the Lodestar screwed directly onto the c-threads of the first piece. Then I screw my Lumicon 1.25″ IR-cut filter inside that one and add the 2nd 1″ extension:<\/p>\n

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Then I slide the above directly into the 80mm extension, and clamp down, then into the smaller extension, clamp down on that, then into the AT72ED’s drawtube. Done.<\/p>\n

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I hate those Chinese made dual screw extension tubes, and I didn’t like the way the Lodestar was gripped by the 1.25″ one at the end of the chain. So, I bought both of these pieces: http:\/\/www.scopestuff.com\/ss_c2bf.htm And this: http:\/\/www.astronomytechnologies.com\/product.asp?id=17012&c=0 … Continue reading →<\/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-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography-and-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5Ogee-668","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}