Lightweight Aluminum Piggy back Camera holder in silvery white; the back camera holder is for 20mm/18mm counterweight shaft
Attach camera or guiding scope to counterweight shaft of astronomical mount with it; reduces overall load for mount; stability is limited only by stability of counterweight shaft; this fixed on the shaft by two M6 screws; maximum weight holding is 6kg
Also a screw kit is included for mounting dovetail clamp direct on top of handle of all BRESSER Messier and EXPLORE-SCIENTIFIC telescope; thus a parallel mounted guiding telescope can be set easy and enables long exposure astrophotagraphy with autoguiding
Universal dovetail clamp suitable for all optical tubes which are equipped with a standard 43mm dovetail rail "Messier/ES/GP/Vixen"
Further 1/4" Photo thread holes allows to adapt this dovetail clamp to many other field tripods and mounting plates
Description
Astromania Dovetail clamp Messier Vixen-Style - Piggy back Camera holder for 20mm Counterweight Shaft for Telescope mounts
It is highly optimized designed so that you can attach a camera or even a compact telescope to the counterweight shaft of your astronomical mount with it stably. This reduces the overall weight because it allows you to use less counterweights.Almost all Vixen-style dove plates will fit well.
The camera holder fits following mounts:
each mount with 18mm or 20mm counterweight bar holder like:
Skywatcher EQ3, EQ-4, EQ5, HEQ-5, EQ-6
Celestron Advanced VX, Advanced GT, CG4
Meade Bresser Mon1, Mon2 and similar ....