10" Tracking Dob

[Andy Walters]

Hi folks, last night I took my 10" skywatcher tracking dob round to a friends and used the synscan hand-controller from a 12" skywatcher GoTo dob he's testing in my scope.
Result, fantastic! after a two star alignment (vega + alpha cent.), every object I went to (m7, m57, m4, venus, 47 tuc, the dumbell, etc.)was in the field of a Vixen LVW22mm.
My friend has also flashed the hand controller from his eq6 to Alt/Az and back again, with no problems at all.
Just thought I'd let the folks with the tracking dobs know.
Andy.:)

[icytailmark]

awesome thanks for that andy. whats the tracking like?how accurate?does the object stay in FOV for a long time?

[Andy Walters]

Everything stayed in the center of field of view for as long as I wanted. P.A.E. function improves aligning as you go. My friend has also taken planetary and DSO images with a G-Star-EX awesome!
Andy.:)

[noswonky]

Thanks for the info Andy.

I have the 12" tracking dob and I'm considering getting the SynScan controller, so it's good to know it actually works.