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That's the 36mm in my image, holding the Megrez 80mm (original), heavy, my own design extension/Vixen extension adaptor (with capacity for eyepiece projection) and my D810 hanging off the end at the correct focal length. I left it sitting there for an hour or so and not the slightest bit of drift. I was highly impressed.
I love imaging the Milky Way, despite having big panoramas I've done over the years hanging on my walls, I still want to do more with tracked stars. I have a guided mount (modified EQ5 pro) which is accurate beyond it's design brief when correctly aligned but my yard gets lit up like a Friday night football match from street lights out the front, ever since they were changed to LED lights.
The one dark corner of my yard is overgrown with STUPID neighbours trees at 30+ feet high right beside the fence line. I must complain to the council, they are getting stricter on that. Everything I want to shoot disappears behind the tree line (the entire north east of my yard). That's why I wanted the astro-trac, I can take it and tripod and 2 heads (Artcise gear head, 6KG limit, AMAZING quality) plus 36mm Artcise ball head with 15Kg load capacity) anywhere and I have friends with farms locally when I can get there. Soon it will be more a fear of treading on tiger snakes than anything else, I'll take a spade (I'm joking, I used to move them back up my back yard n the last place with my hoe and never came close to having one getting aggressive).
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