Aperture Telescopes’ Binocular Parralelogram Mount

Thursday, May 5th, 2011 at 1:34 am

www.aperturetelescopes.com This is a versatile binocular mount from Aperture telescopes. You'll see how easy it is to use. Scanning the starry night or milky way becomes pleasure with this mount. If you are a comet hunter this is an ideal setup for you. The binocular mount supports binocular up to 10 kilograms. Here it is shown with a 5 kg 100mm binocular. The entire mount can rotate 360 degrees around the tripod. The height of the binocular can be adjusted from 7 feet to 3 feet, everyone from a kid to a tall adult can see through the binocular comfortably. The binocular is well away from the tripod and mount for your eye. The mount has four different movements. Two different pan movements are possible, you can either pan the entire mount centered on the tripod, or just the binocular. Each movement is independant of each other. Pointing to your target is easy, the long handle can be used to slew the binocular in any direction. See how smooth every movement is and designed to rotate around you, not the other way around. Once you have located your target the mount can simply be lowered or raised, keeping the target in the field of view. So if you have a large gathering of kids and adults, you can simply raise the mount, the sky object will stay at exactly the same spot in the binocular. And the best part, you can use the binocular mount sitting on a comfortable lawn chair. About 60 degree of the sky can be scanned without getting up. Its really is a visual sky treat using ...
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