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Originally Posted by Wavytone
To be honest I'd suggest he forget that lot, seems he can't really decide whether this is actually an imaging rig, or a travel scope. As you correctly pointed out harmonic drives are dreadful for PE anyway, which does rather suggest this is not really suitable for imaging, anyway.
A travel scope has to be airline portable and ideally backpack-able - and I've tried taking my 70mm to Cradle Mountain and backpacking it - and I can say there isn't room for all the rest of junk to make an imaging rig let alone batteries to power it all (which are illegal on planes). A true travel scope implies the user is probably carrying a smartphone, maybe a tablet at best - not the autoguider, laptop, filters, robofocus, camera, heaters and the whole carload of junk that makes up a full imaging rig.
What does it cost ? I didn't find it from a google search so I guessing this is not really in production yet.
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The goal is a travel astrophotography rig. Whilst harmonic drives aren’t great for imaging, the issue is addressed with autoguiding - as such the maker has packed all the features into a single controller instead of having multiple intermediary components.
The cost is approx AUD$3565 but I’ve just ordered a few additional accessories so that figure’s gonna go up a little more by $200-300.
The maker’s site is all in Japanese :-
http://shop.ss-one.net/?mode=cate&cbid=2416463&csid=0
But it’s in his blogs is where he describes more info (if you have the patience to read back a year’s worth) :-
http://honmaka.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/