New Ioptron ZEQ25 and IEQ45AZ

[netwolf]

Saw this over on CN but no threads here though I Would post it up.

User posted videos
Part1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-kN_FFjxMA
Part2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey50RMnwEj4
Payload test 10" Meade SCT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cIOTROXEpQ

Unguided Image of M101
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5738167/Main/5737255


Looks like a great little mount and seems to be quiet portable. And tracking seems to be good would like to see some PE results for this.

Ioptron also have a new version of the IEQ45 that now also can work in Alt/AZ mode.

Its great to see some competition in this market. Its generating some innovative designs.


Regards
Fahim

[Kal]

Interesting mount the ZEQ25, a CEM 'Chinese Equatorial Mount'

US $799 I wonder what it will hit our shores at?

[pmrid]

It does look interesting. It is only rated at a 27 Lbs (12 Kgs) carrying capacity so it sits a bit below a HEQ5 in that sense. But it could well be a good travelling rig for a bit of wide-field stuff. A good refractor with FW/OAG/CCD and the usual bits and pieces will easily run up to 10-11 Kgs though. I have triedm, where I can, to only load a mount to about 2/3 it's rated capacity. I think this one would have to be taken closer to its limits. How well it handles that for imaging purposes will be the thing I'll be watching.

Peter

[netwolf]

Not sure about CEM, i am sure i have seen the design before.

[brian nordstrom]

:shrug: Takahashi Tegul ?
Brian.