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16-11-2015, 10:42 PM
I am offering up my ASA DDM85 Premium. It was purchased in March 2013.
Current cost new in Australia would be aprox $38,000AUD.
I will part with it for $19,000AUD + Shipping Costs, by direct deposit.
It comes with the specially built equatorial (bent) pier that will need to be altered for your latitude by a having the angles of the pier rebuilt/re-welded. With this pier - No more meridian flips!!!! :eyepop: No wasting time when the target is at the meridian and giving you the best data. The pier is made by ASA and is an awesome piece of engineering - not a locally made clone - very heavy duty. This pier is amazing and fantastically easy to acheive accurate polar alignment with the excellent ASA software - AutoSlew software - make a superfit model. Sequence software is included to automate the whole nights imaging - no need to buy software such as CCDAutoPilot.
It is rated to carry an OTA up to 100kg. I am parting with it because my OTA is too heavy for it. You can see the mount in operation here as well as images taken recently with this mount:
https://savannahskies.smugmug.com/
State of the art - no periodic error direct drive mount! No need for guiding!! :eyepop:
http://www.astrosysteme.at/images/DDM85Premium_Datasheet.pdf
MLPT (Local Multi-Precision Tracking) is currently the fastest method for ASA DDM mounts to precisely track without an autoguider. With MLPT automatically a "local" pointing model will be created to ensure a particular celestial object is tracking superbly without autoguiding. The operation is quite easy to achieve - success in a few minutes!
Another DDM85 user who images, without autoguiding, with an ASA DDM85:
http://www.astro-pics.com/
Regards,
Tim Carruthers
Current cost new in Australia would be aprox $38,000AUD.
I will part with it for $19,000AUD + Shipping Costs, by direct deposit.
It comes with the specially built equatorial (bent) pier that will need to be altered for your latitude by a having the angles of the pier rebuilt/re-welded. With this pier - No more meridian flips!!!! :eyepop: No wasting time when the target is at the meridian and giving you the best data. The pier is made by ASA and is an awesome piece of engineering - not a locally made clone - very heavy duty. This pier is amazing and fantastically easy to acheive accurate polar alignment with the excellent ASA software - AutoSlew software - make a superfit model. Sequence software is included to automate the whole nights imaging - no need to buy software such as CCDAutoPilot.
It is rated to carry an OTA up to 100kg. I am parting with it because my OTA is too heavy for it. You can see the mount in operation here as well as images taken recently with this mount:
https://savannahskies.smugmug.com/
State of the art - no periodic error direct drive mount! No need for guiding!! :eyepop:
http://www.astrosysteme.at/images/DDM85Premium_Datasheet.pdf
MLPT (Local Multi-Precision Tracking) is currently the fastest method for ASA DDM mounts to precisely track without an autoguider. With MLPT automatically a "local" pointing model will be created to ensure a particular celestial object is tracking superbly without autoguiding. The operation is quite easy to achieve - success in a few minutes!
Another DDM85 user who images, without autoguiding, with an ASA DDM85:
http://www.astro-pics.com/
Regards,
Tim Carruthers