Astromania Anti Vibration Pads for Telescope Mount & Camera Tripod, Vibration Suppression Pads Telescope Accessory for NexStar 8SE, Telescope Stabilizer for Astronomy As Companion for Photo Adapter

I was skeptical about these. My Telescope is small and it shakes really bad. And it doesn’t help that we get a lot of wind that just comes and goes. I got these today and tested them on Concrete patio. Almost no shake after focusing. The sake went from about 6 seconds to about 1. When you’re focusing on a planet that matters a lot. I’m very happy. No they don’t slide on the ground and I don’t want them too. That would defeat the purpose of stability and anti vibration. Love em’.

Nice pucks for a better price than the name brand ones. I really don't see any difference between these and the more expensive ones with branding and different colors. I bought them to do vibration isolation for stereo gear, where they were not such a good match - no fault of the product though. They made the bass muddy sounding when inserted under my gear, so I asked to return them and Amazon arranged a return no problem. I'm sure they are great to absorb the frequency vibrations they were designed for and to go under optical gear but I can't comment on that. Sorry, this is a bit of a useless review but I wanted to give my opinion of the product being high quality and that folks shouldn't try to use the product for the purpose I did. I still don't quite understand the effects of various vibration control devices under audio gear - I would have thought these would have been great.

The ‘jiggle’ of stars, planets using high magnification eyepieces in my telescopes has been reduced.But it is not a “MagicBullet”. You have to have a very steady mount that is well engineered - surprisingly few meet this basic element of visual astronomy. Younalso have to have heavy duty, solid tripod that again is sturdy and isn’t prone to vibrations/shaking. So the use of these pads reducing vibrations from the ground are important to improving the jiggling viewsMy only real ‘complain’ is the slippery bottoms that provide reduced grip/contact with the ground. On a deck, the entire telescope can move under wind loads, especially lager OTAs that are almost like wind-sails. I glued some coarse fabrics to the bottoms of these ‘pucks’ and that has helped the skidding/slipping. Maybe if the manufacturer had considered this and made the bottom contact surface with an ‘abrasive’ finish, this would solve the issue. Hence my 4 Stars Review.

I have a 140mm refractor I use on a goto Skywatcher AZ-EQ mount and I never could use the fine focus because of focus shakes. I had seen these pads before in another brand name and considered trying them but wasn't sure if the price of the brand name ones were worth it. Then I discovered these and decided to give them a try. Simply put - they work. No more focus shakes when using the fine focus knob. These pads appear to be identical to the much higher priced brand name ones and probably are made in the same factory. If you're experiencing vibrations when focusing your telescope give these pads a try. They work and are worth every penny.

Been using these to stabilize the shake and reduce focus shake as well so far works very well. Vibrations from walking and cars passing in the distance are also greatly reduced in vibrations.

It is so easy to see how this concave design provides very stable and local point of contact with your tripod. I use celestron AVX and mount 8 inches Newtonian. This is a bit demanding weight for AVX, considering other accessories such as DSLR and finder scope.When I forgot tp bring these pads, I was only able to get a non-trash quality photo up to 30 seconds of exposure. With this manning the ground, even 1.5 minutes are fine, prpvided that the alignment is well processed.If you want astrophotography, vibration is your enemy. The money you spend must be worth. In fact, the outcome you get is above and beyond the money you spend.

Utilizo las almohadillas estabilizadoras con un telescopio Celestron StarSense 127AZ, el cual es bastante difícil de estabilizar por el tipo de montaje. La vibración se reduce un poco, no totalmente, aunque si me ha permitido capturar mejores fotografías de los planetas mayores.

During our Sunday church broadcast, the lyrics on the screen would distort terribly with every bass or kick drum stroke. Our video platform was basically acting as passive radiator. I did not believe these innocuous looking little hockey pucks would do much. SURPRISE!!! The video is now perfectly stable. I HIGHLY recommend these to anyone experiencing vibration induced distortion. WOW! Just WOW!!!