With weights available in 1kg increments, these plates are easy to attach and remove, making them perfect for progressively making your workouts harder as you get stronger. Has anyone ever added weights onto the rear end of the optical tube? Seems to me the perfect solution. However, I was observing without the counter weight a few nights ago and I cannot say I noticed a difference. I am wondering if counter balancing a 8" OTA may be unnecessary as...

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The "nose droop" tendency gets gradually less as the scope is pointed upwards. When I'm observing an area around the zenith I don't need any counterweight even with my heaviest eyepiece. When observing something close to the horizon (ie: Sirius) I need both counterweights. These are such a great idea! They worked perfectly to keep my long veil from flying around during the ceremony, but then were easy to remove for photos where I wanted my veil to fly. Perhaps not that elegant but seems to balance the scope nicely. Counterweight weighs around 2,2 kg which seems enough for balancing my moonlite focuser with spacers and my heaviest eyepiece which is in fact not that heavy at just below 0.5 kg.

Alternatively, attach a heavy biker’s chain to the rear end of the dob. The lower the scope elevation, the greater the amount of chain suspended to balance the increased moment from the eyepiece end.

I've recently got a few heavier accessories for my 150p skywatcher dob: a 2" 70 degrees eyepiece and upgraded the finderscope from a 6x30 to a 9x50. I'm sure i could upgrade to a better mount to solve this, but I'm not looking to spend that money at the moment. The Telrad and Zoom eyepiece on my 8" Skywatcher means that in the horizontal position there is a change in the centre of gravity. I have therefore (temporarily) added a weight to counter this. Had a chance to try out this counterweight setup last night. Was doing mainly planetary observing at low altitudes that previously tended to cause the scope to slowly tilt downwards. And you are definitely don't have to do anything with your mount until something starts annoying you.

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