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Skywatcher's equivalent to Celestron CPWI
Hey All,
With 12 months in, I'm very new to this hobby. So far I have been through a Celestron nexstar4se and now using an evolution 8 and skywatcher Heritage 130P.
I'm now looking at doing astrophotography with exposures beyond the 1min mark with my DSLR. One thing I have notice in my research for an Equatorial Mount is that 85% (my opinion) of the people out there are using skywatcher EQ mounts.
Are the skywatcher mounts that much better than the celestron brand??
Initially I was 100% set on the Celestron AVX mount, mainly due to having very good success with the PC software - CPWI to align and control my mounts. Also I have not had any issues with firmware updates and in general the Celestron brand.... it just works very well for me.
The issue I have is I'm now questioning if I should go down the path of using an AVX mount when I see most users using skywatcher HEQ's
Can the Skywatcher mounts (HEQ5 Pro) work with the Celestron CPWI software? If not, what is skywatchers equivalent?
Thank you in advance & keep safe
Wayne
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