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I bought a star adventurer and took it out for the first time last Sat Night.
It was almost impossible to use the polar scope in the southern hemisphere. The backlight kills the stars in Octans.
I mounted my Guide scope and guide camera and did a polar alignment with Sharpcap. This mount is rather difficult to move small amounts for the alignment. Azimeth is not bad but altitude is very course.
Anyway, I got a fair polar alignment and did about 17 Subs at 5 mins with negliable star trails. I was using my QHY10 and a Sigma 10-20mm Zoom lense aimed at the center of the milky way. I have yet to process my image. With such a large FOV a close alignment was acceptable. Must have been around 120-150 Deg FOV.
I would recommend this mount for astrophotography. And with its 5kg payload even small scopes can be used with it.
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