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Old 27-08-2021, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Sunfish View Post
This is along the lines of my Heq5 but not as bad as you would think. With a 3.5 kg refractor the guiding error is less than 0.6 . With the 10kg 200 newt the error is more than 2 but still achievable for AP when the objects are overhead or in the West with 2x 5kg weights plus a 1 kg SA weight screwed on the end.
The added advantage of this particular mount is that I did a belt mod earlier this year so with just a little luck, I am hoping to smooth out a fair amount of the backlash you usually see in a HEQ5.

I’ll only be doing planetary with this rig for a couple of months yet so I won’t be testing that theory for a while.
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