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Originally Posted by RickS
Congrats, Suavi! I hope you haven't doomed us to six months of cloudy & wet weather  |
Thank you Rick! Just to clarify - recent heat wave is a natural phenomena due to a change in seasons...
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Beautiful piece of new kit!
As nice as the EQ6 is it isn't until you upgrade that you realise how good good can be
P.S.
Hopefully the new mount will suck the clouds from us Southerners  |
Thank you Colin! Yeah, relationship with an EQ6 is not always a smooth ride (pun intended)...
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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
Looks a beauty Suavi  |
Thank you!
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Originally Posted by RobF
OOOOOOOooooooooo!!!!! |
Oh YEAH!
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Originally Posted by atalas
Very cool Suavi!
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Thank you Louie!
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Originally Posted by mountainjoo
Congrats! Just out of interest, what made you choose this over other premium mounts in the same price bracket?
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Thank you Jerome.
It is a bit difficult to say what exactly swayed me towards this mount. It was a mix of:
-> time-proven design (Mach 1 has been around for about 10 years and it has been further refined over that time), and although no equipment is fault-free, the vast majority of Mach-1 (or any AP equipment) users are very pleased with it
-> theoretically (I have not tested that yet) it has excellent tracking out of the box (as other premium mounts) and the new gearboxes are a breeze to adjust if needed.
-> it is portable (I need to set up for each session)
-> it is a mount made by Astro-Physics
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Top mount Suavi and a great looking setup, I feel the excitement
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Thank you Mike! If it performs half as well as your mount I will be happy!
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
A great buy!
You'll never look back.
I use 2 things to control the mount from hitting the tripod. A free program called mount watcher and another one which is the AP timer. I set both. The Mount watcher works like a SB mount where software limits cause tracking to stop. Usually 5 degrees off the meridian.
Greg.
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Thank you Greg. I must admit that it was your feedback, and from several other AP users, that influenced me to go for this mount.
I will have a look at the software you have mentioned, thank you!
I also got the APCC Pro and it has the ability to set limits that are very flexible and can be fine-tuned to one's particular set-up. Will get to that one day