mg
24-10-2015, 02:33 PM
Bought this from IIS user early in the year, and now I'm looking to upgrade. I tore it down and tuned it, which involved regrease with superlube and removing any rough spots on the moving parts.
Tracks well and handles my C8 comfortably for visual observing.
I've taken lots of DSLR images (unguided) with 50mm lens (on cropped sensor) using 45 sec exposures with nice round stars on all subs. It is probably capable of more but this is as far as I've pushed the astrophotography with this mount. No guide port.
It's this mount:
http://www.bintel.com.au/Mounts---Tripods/EQ-Mounts/Skywatcher-EQ5-Mount--BR--Aluminium-Legs-/94/productview.aspx
with motors:
http://www.bintel.com.au/Mounts---Tripods/Drive-motors/Orion-EQ-5-Dual-Axis-Drive/130/productview.aspx
Gold Coast or Brisbane buyer would be awesome, but shipping isn't out of the question.
Asking $300.
NOW $250.
Cheers!
Tracks well and handles my C8 comfortably for visual observing.
I've taken lots of DSLR images (unguided) with 50mm lens (on cropped sensor) using 45 sec exposures with nice round stars on all subs. It is probably capable of more but this is as far as I've pushed the astrophotography with this mount. No guide port.
It's this mount:
http://www.bintel.com.au/Mounts---Tripods/EQ-Mounts/Skywatcher-EQ5-Mount--BR--Aluminium-Legs-/94/productview.aspx
with motors:
http://www.bintel.com.au/Mounts---Tripods/Drive-motors/Orion-EQ-5-Dual-Axis-Drive/130/productview.aspx
Gold Coast or Brisbane buyer would be awesome, but shipping isn't out of the question.
Asking $300.
NOW $250.
Cheers!