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Old 12-02-2021, 09:44 PM
RyanJones
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Ryan,
Is your HEQ5 out of the box ?
Your 8” f4 with guiding set up would be around 11kg ?
Do you have a finder on board as well and dew control straps etc...
0.5 arc sec rms is unbelievable for a basic out of the box HEQ5, best I’ve heard of yet !!
I could only ever get down to 0.80 to 0.90 arc sec ( best ) with my out of the box HEQ5 carrying my 6” f6 , guide gear , dew straps etc... around 9kg payload
Well done !!
Hi Martin,

No it’s probably a fair way from what you’d describe as out of the box. All the changes I’ve made though have been done at home. I’ve taken a bit of weight out of the setup to bring it down to just over 10kg. In its normal “ out of the box “ guise with the Rowan belt mod it was much more like your numbers of around 0.9 - 1.1

All this aside I see you agree this mount will comfortably handle the OPs setup.
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