The Robust Metal Housing Is Made of Black, Anodized Aluminium It not only looks solid, but is very sturdy. A milled and knurled focusing ring allows straightforward and precise fine focusing. It comes with matching tube clamps and a Synta-style mounting plate to make assembly and disassembly as simple as possible. A brass ring design-prevent the marring of your telescope accessories. Overall fine workmanship, is a good choice for you!
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Attaching the Guide Scope: The 50mm Multi-Use Guide Scope’s mounting bracket has a Vixenstyle dovetail bar that can be mounted to your telescope in different ways. First, it fits the standard dovetail finder scope base included on many telescopes. Simply slide it into the dovetail base, then tighten the thumbscrew on the base to secure the guide scope in place. The bracket’s dovetail bar has one ¼"-20 (center) for attachment to an optional universal dovetail plate. In the guidescope is mounted on a telescope.
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Another method of attachment: Bolt the guide scope bracket to an optional universal dovetail plate, which you mount on top of your telescope. The mounting bar has three threaded through-holes: the center hole has ¼"-20 threads. To attach the guide scope bracket to a universal dovetail plate, one way would be to insert a ¼"-20 socket head capscrew of proper length up through the dovetail plate and into the center hole of the bracket’s dovetail bar. Tighten the bolt firmly with an Allen wrench. Then install the universal plate onto your telescope’s tube rings or radius blocks.
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