Altazimuth Mounts

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The mount’s adjustable height aluminum tripod has a maximum extended height of 45" and a folded height of 32". A metal accessory tray helps to both lock the tripod legs in place and hold eyepieces or accessories up and out of the dew-soaked grass. The no-tool standard camera tripod 1/4"-20 thread mounting bolt is installed in a slot in the long scope mounting plate. This allows you to slide the spotting scope or binocular back and forth on the mount head to find the proper balance point.

Flexible slow motion cables are provided to let you fine-tune the pointing of your scope or binocular and to smoothly follow objects as they move across the sky or landscape. There is a lock in azimuth, in addition to the slow motion control, to allow the mount head to be moved in a 360° circle. There is no separate altitude lock. The coarse adjustment in altitude is controlled by a built-in friction clutch, while fine adjustment is done using the slow motion control cable. Simply tilt the scope or binocular up and down by hand until the desired vertical angle is reached (the friction clutch will hold it in place), and make any further fine-tuning altitude adjustments with the slow motion control. The amount of vertical friction can be adjusted to compensate for exceptionally heavy optical instruments by tightening the altitude axis bolt with a pliers or crescent wrench (not supplied).