Has anyone else had experience with both the Polarie and the ioptron?Are your experiences similar to Luigis?
Bo
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Originally Posted by luigi
Iīve been using one for a while I could do 4 minute exposures at 135mm good but not as good as the Polarie which got me to 10 minutes exposures using the same lens. This is because of polar-alignment precision not because of tracking accuracy.
The battery door in mine is already broken and taped. The lack of azimuth control was solved buying a Feisol panning base, it matches the Skytracker exactly and then I donīt need a 2nd tripod head or moving the tripod for PA.
The polarscope is bad, plain, and the lack of the octans trapezium is at least hard to understand I donīt use an Iphone so I have to align using a chart or planetarium software on my android tablet.
The led of the polarscope is too strong to see the reticle but too dim to see if the unit is working or not.
Battery runtime is fantastic, many nights with the same 4 batteries, this is good because changing batteries in this unit is a nightmare.
The controls are very bad to be used in very cold weather.
And thatīs all I have to say for now
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