Vixen gp mount controller sd-1
Hello all
Joined IIS about two years ago to start rekindling my interest in astronomy. Since then things have been somewhat interrupted with my remarriage and two house moves fortunately ending up with a property with good skies at Daisy Hill near Maryborough in Victoria.
Now relatively more settled am ready to have another go, particularly astrophotography as I have seen some wonderful examples of what some of us have achieved. I have been warned how expensive and difficult this can be but I am not deterred as JFK said once "we do this not because it is easy but because it is hard"
Had the opportunity to aquire an old (one might even say neglected looking) Vixen outfit consisting of an 80mm refractor but with a strong looking Vixen tripod and GP mount)
I thought my first step in astrophotography would be to get some practice by simply mounting my Canon 60DA and a telephoto lens directly to the GP mount.
Unfortunately the SD-1 single axis controller that came with the mount does not operate (has no output voltage) and am wondering where I could obtain a replacement or perhaps have the existing one fixed.
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