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 When I first got my Meade LXD-500 mount, I got it without a telescope
 because I wasn't sure which scope I wanted but I knew I wanted a 
 German-Equatorial mount for astro-photography.  So I made this adapter
 to hook a camera right up to the mount instead of piggy-backing it off
 a scope as many people do.  When I finally bought my Meade 8" 
 Schmidt-Cassagrain I found out it was only about $100 more to get it
 with a mount.  So now I have 2 mounts.  I use one for the telescope and
 one for a camera.  At a couple of star-parties I've used both at the same
 time.  Since the one only has a camera, and the weight bar with NO weights
 on it, the 10 AA battery pack runs it all night.  For the one with the
 scope I run it with one of those Car jump starters that has the
 cigarette lighter plug for 12 VDC power out.

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