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Old 24-10-2015, 02:33 PM
mg (Mitchell)
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Gold Coast
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Price drop : EQ5 mount with dual axis motors and aluminium tripod

Bought this from IIS user early in the year, and now I'm looking to upgrade. I tore it down and tuned it, which involved regrease with superlube and removing any rough spots on the moving parts.

Tracks well and handles my C8 comfortably for visual observing.

I've taken lots of DSLR images (unguided) with 50mm lens (on cropped sensor) using 45 sec exposures with nice round stars on all subs. It is probably capable of more but this is as far as I've pushed the astrophotography with this mount. No guide port.

It's this mount:
http://www.bintel.com.au/Mounts---Tr...oductview.aspx

with motors:
http://www.bintel.com.au/Mounts---Tr...oductview.aspx

Gold Coast or Brisbane buyer would be awesome, but shipping isn't out of the question.

Asking $300.
NOW $250.

Cheers!
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Last edited by mg; 19-11-2015 at 09:31 PM.