An update from last nights tracking trial.
I went back outside at 2am, the cloud had thinned to fine fog. I hair-dryered the lens and EP, and Canopus was STILL in the centre!!!!!!!
That's 4.5 hours!
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Originally Posted by lineout
Hey balaratdragons,
Can you give us an idea on portability and ease of set up. I'm thinking of dumping my LX-90 forks for an eq mount.
Cheers.
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EQ5, HEQ5, and (if you have a little bit of muscle) an EQ6 are easy enough to carry around. They aren't overly heavy. The trick on set up is getting the knack of Polar Aligning which is covered in many many threads in here. After a few goes, it gets easier like most things.
The EQ5 is a bare minimum for the 120mm refractor, but would be much more stable on the HEQ5 or the EQ6.
If you only had a light, short tube scope, the EQ5 will be fine. And (as I read in another thread in here) can be set up to Autoguide
Depending on your scope, I'd suggest HEQ5 as a minimum for Astrophotography.