Notes from the field. My rants raves and frothing at the mouth about this maddening and frustrating buy lovely hobby

As a total fluke I found today that the LX80 plug is the same as the Celestron. I have a Starizona LiOn power pack and I had a adapter that Starizona sold to me so I could use it on my Meade products. I ended up accidentally breaking the adapter and hadn't gotten a replacement for it. As I was packing for the star party tonight I decided to just see what happened when I plugged it directly into the LX80. Lo and behold it powered on just fine!

On the subject of the Starizona power ...

Thank you Eric for finding this! The one flaw in the Explore Scientific scopes can now be fixed!!

Originally Posted by perigny270

My Antares finderscope arrived yesterday. It works fantastic. No more contortions and the focusser is back to where it belongs.
I put it in the ES finderscope rings - it can slip around a bit (rotate) because one of the screws on each of the ES rings is spring loaded. However it usually stays put, and even when it moves it does not lose its alignment

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