Anyone using the Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro?

[gregbradley]

OK so there is the Rowan Astronomy belt upgrade for this mount.

Does anyone else sell like an upgrade worm to improve PE?

Or some other service?

Greg.

[Startrek (Martin)]

I was in Bintel today as well around midday ordering my new rig, 8” f5 newt on a EQ6-R Mount plus other stuff for my 12” dob
Yes I saw the HEQ5 with the refractor on it too but again the mount by itself is manageable in my opinion
Cheers

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Greg,
I think you’re getting ahead of yourself.
You may find the standard HEQ5pro meets your needs without any mods or improvements.....

[billdan (Bill)]

A HEQ5 Pro has just come up in the IIS classifieds which has been belt modded plus other mods.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Merlin66

Greg,
I think you’re getting ahead of yourself.
You may find the standard HEQ5pro meets your needs without any mods or improvements.....

Thanks for that. That may well be the case but a belt mod does not sound that expensive nor hard to do so I would likely do that anyway.

Originally Posted by billdan

A HEQ5 Pro has just come up in the IIS classifieds which has been belt modded plus other mods.

Thanks for the heads up.

Greg.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

A bit late to the discussion, but I thought it won't hurt sharing my experiences with HEQ5.

I had it for a year or two when I was starting off with imaging, and later upgraded to AZEQ6. A good, affordable and easy to set up mount and my experience with it was positive, so much that recently I have been considering getting another one just for visual astronomy, but I would be putting it on my Berlebach tripod. I used the mount with a 6" F/8 Newtonian and a 4" doublet. Tracked well with both scopes. Fit and finish is...good enough for the the mount to do its job.

Here is one of my images taken with HEQ5 some years ago:

https://www.astrobin.com/full/141358...ist_page=2&nc=

[gregbradley]

Thanks Suavi.

A good positive review.

Greg.