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Can anyone recommend a suitable (sized) cover for my new scope.
I’ve been pointed to the Telegizmos ones sod by Widescreen Centre but it’s difficult to assess the correct size.
I won’t be leavg any scope on the mount.
ThanksThis may or may not be applicable for you but I use a standard small car cover (a cover for small cars, rather than a small cover for cars though there is little difference between the two concepts in practice). A motorcycle cover may be more suitable for a smaller scope.
My cover is too big but I don’t care. Rope and/or bungee cords take good care of any excess.
I use a cheap barbecue cover bought from Amazon for my NEQ6 when it is left outside. It has survived some pretty torrential rainstorms this summer.
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I used to keep my EQ6 out in all weathers covered with an upturned plastic dustbin topped off with a BBQ cover.
Now resorted to a small 6’x6′ shove-off-shed that is 100% watertight and now leave mounted scope in there all the time with a mini tubular heater,
simply because it saves so much time in opening up and closing down.David
Whilst BBQs might be popular in Essex, up here in the north I have used a chimenea cover.
In the past I have used an upturned dustbin, as suggested by David, tho this was for a smaller mount. The EQ head was on a pier which passed through the dustbin lid, allowing the lid to be attached to the inverted bin thus providing more protection.
I have found the Geoptik Large High Quality Telescope Cover quite useful for my EQ6 & CEM70 mounts.
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Thanks to everyone for great suggestions
Seconded.
I have a rather, err, crappy Meade here which was shipped almost 5 years ago and never put into use. When the next delivery of round tuits arrive I will put it into a roll-off shed under software control
Until then, I have now decided to buy a BBQ or motorbike cover pro tem.
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