Star Adventurer 2i with a scope

[Marko of Oz]

I plonked my old meade F7 102 Star Navigator on the Star Adventurer and pointed at the Orion Neb on the 19/01/21.

It was pretty windy so could only keep 17 of 100, 60 second exposures at iso 1600.

I think it has potential, if you ignore the purple halos.
Telescope and camera weighed in at about 3.4kg and the mount seemed to track ok with that.

I was just testing this sort of setup out while I'm considering buying a Skywatcher ED80 to mount on the Star Adventurer, which should give a wider field and less purpley bits.:D

cheers

Mark

[Sunfish]

Looks pretty good for that much weight on the SA and a non ED lense. Well done.

You can defringe the purple halos in photoshop light room development easily if you have that.

I have had that much weight on an SA and it just worked for me for shortish exposures if you can add some extra counter weight and balance. There is a whole thread on CN where people make this work. The hard part is to keep it all clamped up.