Well, the generousity of fellow astronomers never fails to amaze me.......... not wanting me to have bad tracking during the next jupiter season, a certain astronomer is helping me get a eq6......thanks go to this guy for an awesome offer of help. I feel very priveledged!
So, for this dob lover..............I need to do some research on what will safely hold a 10" custom newt (birds old one), 1500mm long, and roughly 970mm outer diameter for the tube.
I assume I will need a mount, tube rings and a dovetail plate.
So here comes the questions....
1. I assume the eq6 (
https://www.bintelshop.com.au/Product.aspx?ID=7348 ) can be converted to goto down the track??? (
https://www.bintelshop.com.au/Product.aspx?ID=7350 )
2. Would an Heq5 (
https://www.bintelshop.com.au/Product.aspx?ID=7347 ) would be too light? OR because I am only doing High Mag planetary, then I may get away with it?
3. do you need to balance the tube length wise with the tube rings
4. does it interface to the computer?
5. questions re drift aligning will come later.
6. I have no major inkling to do DSO's at this stage, just high magnification planetary
I feel very fortunate to be able to give this a crack thanks to a generous astronomer mate, and would want to make sure I make the right decisions and am looking to you guys to steer me in the right direction.