HGM Titan Equitorial Mount Telescope and Observatory: DurangoSkies.com

HGM Titan Equitorial Mount	$5,995.00
[TITAN]	Drop Ship

EQUATORIAL HEAD

All machined stainless steel and aluminum, black anodized.
Shafts, 1.968" diameter stainless steel tubing, .250" wall thickness.
Worm gears, 6.750" diameter, 270 tooth, 7075 aluminum - special coated.
Worms, heat treated and ground stainless steel.
Single piece worm housing construction, double ended, ball bearing supported with adjustable preload.
Tracking: +/- 5 arc sec. or better.
Low temperature operation: 0 F
5.062" diameter needle thrust bearings.
3.500" diameter sealed ball bearings.
3.100" diameter sealed ball bearings for worm gear.
Fully locking, unique tangent arm design altitude adjustment, 12-70 degrees, large knob for easy alignment.
Laser engraved latitude scale in 2 degree increments.
Single knob azimuth control, bi-directional +/- 10 degrees, X/Y axis leveling bubbles.
Variable slip clutch, 6.0" diameter both axes, one knob design.
Full 360 degree rotation in both R.A. and DEC.
Fully enclosed R.A. and DEC. worm and worm gear.
Photographic instrument weight capacity 100 lbs.
Equatorial Head weight 75 lbs. Breaks down into R.A. 37.5 lbs. & DEC. 37.5 lbs.
Removable counterweight shaft with safety stop, 1.25" diameter.
Includes two 21 lb weights.
Split dovetail saddle plate design, 1.00" X 6.00" X 8.00"
Dovetail plate drops in and locks allowing for interchanging of any tube assembly - reduces the need for DEC. weights.
Accepts all "D" series dovetail plates.
7 lb and 11 lb extra counterweights available
Off axis polar scope(optional), works in Northern and Southern hemisphere.

GEMINI SYSTEM FEATURES:

Very High Precision pointing to less than 1 arc minute
Object search mode with user definable search radius
Sidereal, Solar Lunar and King tracking rates
User brightness adjustable LED display
Up to 256 alignment stars permitted either side of the meridian
Menus are accessed by the standard Losmandy 4 button hand paddle
An optional deluxe hand paddle that repeats the Main panel display information
RS232 serial port control by a PC using software such as The Sky, Guide 7.0 or Palm Planetarium
T-Point (Software Bisque) Compatible
Internal real time clock that displays, UTC, Local Mean Time an Sidereal Time
Up to 10 degrees per second slewing (G-8)
User definable Guiding, Centering Slewing and GOTO speeds
Permanent Periodic error Correction
Allows manual telescope movement with optional shaft encoders
Southern and Northern Hemisphere operation
Retains position information after power off (for permanent observatory use)
EPROM upgradeable software