Counterweights

More Information Price $30.00 List Price $40.00 Weight 6 oz. Warranty 1 year

This TeleVue telescope balance aid is a machined and anodized aluminum plate that can be used to move the telescope balance point forward by about 2.5" to better balance a tail-heavy TeleVue scope. It is designed for use with a standard TeleVue telescope ring mount and a TeleVue Panoramic or Gibraltar mount. It can also work with a conventional photo tripod, although the single mounting bolt of a photo tripod does not provide as rigid a connection as the two bolts used with a TeleVue ring mount.

The balance aid plate attaches to the two mounting holes in the scope ring mount, using the supplied Allen-head bolts and Allen wrench. The end of the balance aid with the long studs and wing nuts should be toward the diagonal end of the scope. The long studs are slipped into the two holes in the Panoramic and Gibraltar mount cradles and held in place with the supplied wing nuts. This arrangement moves the ring mount and scope forward of the mount cradle, better balancing the weight of heavy eyepiece or camera at the rear.