[Paul Haese]

I have recently bought a Skywatcher Star Adventurer. I bought this as I felt it better suited my needs and would work better for me with time lapse and even some wide field DSLR imaging.

It comes with adapters to hold a DSLR, declination wedge, polar scope, polar scope illuminator, counter weight and counter weight bar ,mount itself, dove tail bars and manual. It is very well packed into several small boxes.

The mount operates on two types of power sources. One being 4AA batteries or a usb B port.

It has several settings for speeds including sidereal, lunar, solar and 4 other speeds. It has a switch for both northern and southern hemispheres with the addition of fast adjustment buttons to get your object centred.

The mount has clutches that hold everything nice and tight and is a step up over some other models. There is even slow motion declination axis adjustment for use to centre up your images.

With the declination wedge it mounts directly onto a standard tripod and can carry a D4 with 70-200mm lens. I am yet to test how well it will work but it seems to work without struggling with that camera.

I am looking forward to using it in its various modes and see what I can do with it. One of which will be to take it on our next total solar eclipse chase.

I will let do an update once I have taken some shots.