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Celestron Heavy-Duty Altazimuth Tripod | 
 enlarge | Brand: Celestron
Category: Photography
List Price: $139.95
Buy New: $84.87
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Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 35.5 x 7.5 x 6.5
MPN: 93607
Model: 93607
UPC: 050234936071
EAN: 0050234936071
ASIN: B0007UQNY0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Extendable aluminum tripod legs with heavy-duty mount head | | • | Sliding 1/4-inch-20 mounting screw | | • | Flexible slow-motion cables for both altitude and azimuth | | • | 45-inch maximum extended height | | • | 32-inch folded height |
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Product Description
Celestron wants to be known as a company that puts quality first in all aspects of its business. It is a complete company, working to make the best possible products backed up by the best possible product support. Because of this commitment to quality, Celestron organized its efforts to manufacture products from the inside out - starting with the most important internal components to the external touches that set the look of products apart. Celestron's overall mission is to provide the highest quality products at a competitive price.PRODUCT FEATURES:Extendable aluminum tripod legs with heavy duty mount head;Sliding ?"-20 mounting screw;Flexible slow motion cables for both altitude and azimuth;Max extended height - 45 inches;Folded height - 32 inches.This product is designed for the following systems:SkyMaster 20x80 and 25x100 binoculars;Ultima 80 and 100 Spotting scopes;C90 and C130 Mak Spotting scopes;C5 Spotting scope.For a complete compatibility list please refer to the original manufacturer's web site.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Heavy & useless July 24, 2008
I hate this tripod , it is heavy and not stable at all.
I think it needs to be tightend.
It has very nice controls vertical and hirzontal
Wish I shopped around before buying July 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not satisfied with this prduct. I bought it on trusting the Celestron product team. I wanted it to work well with the SkyMaster 25x100 bino. The parts and construction of the tripod have too many cheap metal and cheap plastic parts for cost of the product. I question how reliable and long lasting the core worm drives will be. As noted by other buyers the legs are too short and there seems to be no easy way to get around this with a table, etc. I now wonder if Amazon would buy it back? Also how will I find a suitable triod with having to buy it first? Amazon sold this to me for $99, now less than one month later the price is $35. $35 is more appropriate but possibly not worth the annoyances.
Tripod April 18, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been very disappointed with this product. The overall height is wrong for any situation I can find to use it. I bought it to use with astronomy binoculars. It is too short to use standing and too tall to use sitting, at least for me. (I'm 5'9"). It is solid enough to not shake much and the fine adjustment works well. I would shop around before buying this one. If there were a height adjustment, it would be much better.
 Pretty good, with one big problem October 22, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It arrived in good shape, on time. It works fairly well with a Celestron C5, with one major problem. The elevation fine adjust has a huge amount of play, several degrees. The big adjustment screw has a preload or at least an end play adjustment, but the real problem comes from the nut in the middle of this screw. It can move around. The tiny phillips head screw that holds this part in place doesn't do much and eventually worked itself loose again. It may be missing a part, the tripod arrived with no instructions or drawings of any kind. The azimuth fine adjust did not have this problem.
 A Good Solid Altazimuth Tripod June 14, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
All metal construction (except for the knobs) make this a solid mount for a small to medium sized scope. I found very little problem with vibration using a C90 spotting scope at high powers. The sliding 1/4-20 mounting screw allows the scope to be balanced properly. The 1/4-20 adapter also appears to be removable in order to use scope rings or other mounting methods. The fine adjustment knobs offer limited range but precise adjustments for aiming a scope under high power or for tracking distant objects. The fine adjustment knobs are also connected by cables minimizing vibrations and a possible source of misalignment.
A minor quibble with the design of this tripod is the screw-in eyepiece holder which serves to add additional rigidity to the legs. I would have preferred a built-in locking mechanism instead. Another quibble is that the East-West panning axis must be locked for the fine controls to function properly.
The only major complaint I have - and I would have given this tripod 5 stars otherwise - is the design of the altitude/tilting mechanism. While the head can be locked for panning East-West, there is no corresponding up-down tilt locking mechanism. The head only offers a fixed tension for up-down tilting and no lock, unlike typical camera tripod heads (I believe you may be able to actually adjust the tension with a wrench but there is no knob or handle for doing this at will). Furthermore, there is no handle of any sort so in order to tilt the scope up or down, you must push and pull the scope itself to point it up and down which can put a great deal of stress on the single 1/4-20 mounting point. The ease of use of this tripod would have been much better with an adjustable locking tension knob or handle.
All in all, I am still rather pleased with this tripod. It is quite solid with little or no vibration problems and appears well-adapted for terrestrial viewing as well as short-term astronomical observing.
Note: For long-term astronomical viewing, I would instead suggest a German Equatorial Mount (GEM) such as the similarly priced Orion Min-EQ, EQ-1 or EQ-2 Equatorial Mounts or similar which are designed for the specific purpose of precisely tracking astronomical objects over time. Such mounts can even be motorized for this purpose.
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