With optics this good you don't stint on the quality of the other
components in your telescope system. Thus a $695.00 2" "Giant Masterglide" crayford
type focuser custom made by Van Slyke Engineering is used. It has 3" of travel and a built-in
draw tube to provide an extra 6" of extended back focus. Hold your mouse pointer over
here to see its dual focusing
knobs for both coarse and fine focusing and its powerful, gear-reduced, Pitman motor.
The main advantage of this focuser is that it can support 26 lbs.
You can load it with more than one instrument at a time without worrying about slippage.
You can mount an AO-7 Adaptive Optics Tip-Tilt mirror, an ST-8XEI CCD camera, and an CFW8A Color
Filter Wheel with all 5 2" LRGBC filters all at the same time. With the same camera and an
SGS Spectrometer you can measure "Red Shift" and stellar temperatures. With only the camera and
its software, you can "blink" an area of the sky to detect the movement of distant comets, - all
because you have a focuser that can support the back focus and weight of these instruments.