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Old 20-11-2016, 07:24 PM
DarkKnight (Kev)
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Morpeth NSW
Posts: 177
Oh, the frustrations of a newbie starting out

I've now been twelve months on this journey, trying to avoid the newbie pitfalls by asking lots of dumb questions.

I'm on my third mount, and haven't taken a worthwhile shot yet.

I have a HEQ5 Pro, a Losmandy side by side plate to mount a DSLR camera on one side, and a guide scope and camera on the other. I have bought a ZWO ASI120MM-S and a Williams Optics 50mm guide scope.

In the interests of stability I felt I should mount the 'scope directly to a 'V' plate instead of using the flimsy looking post mount it came with.

I've found, after two days of 'googling', that not a single manufacturer has a 'V' plate with the same drillings as the WO mount.

Now I can understand manufacturers not wanting to push business to their opposition, but it seems almost like WO have gone out of their way to design their mount to be non-compatible with Losmandy, Vixen, ADM etc.

If I wasn't such a tenacious old fart I'd go back to photographing birds, and forget about this astro stuff.
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