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Originally Posted by renormalised
No, I wasn't considering one, I was just making comment on it after reading about the mount and the problems with the smaller mounts. I'm looking at an SXD for the mount...much lighter than the AXD which I'd have trouble carting about since I have trouble with arthritis in my joints.
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The SXD is a very light weight mount so shouldn't cause too much strain on your back or joints Carl. Its actually lighter than the HEQ5 Pro or feels lighter anyway. The counter weights are also much smaller as well (1.8 and 3.9 kg) due to the design. A single 1.8 would be enough for the 103 with an EP. The PE is very good on mine, only the starbook that is the problem when trying to take pics, it can really cause grief with the autoguiding. I have had nights where I have not been able to get the thing to track properly using autoguiding so have turned off the correction leaving the tracking fuction on and guess what, two very flat lines appear on the graph. The starbook just doesn't like being told what to do and seems to fight any input. Either that or it processes the guide inputs before passing them on to the mount meaning it reacts too slowly and then a larger input is needed to correct and the whole thing turns upside down. On other nights using the exact same settings it just works
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Mark