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Old 29-07-2011, 10:57 AM
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Amunous (Michael)
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photography mount

Hey all,

My partner is looking at purchasing an astrophotography mount, she has been looking at getting either an heq5 or neq6.
I have just stumbled upon a Mount called "iOptron SmartStar PR GoTo German Equatorial Mount", its only $1100 on the ozscopes website.

The problem is i have never heard of the brand and wanted to know if its new or is it some yum cha rip of the heq5?
Has anyone seen or heard of it before?
If so is it a decent mount to get started with and then upgrade later (when she gets used to the whole set up and taking pics?) or should she just go all out and get the neq6 knowing nothing about astrophotography?
Link to item is

http://www.ozscopes.com.au/ioptron-s...ial-mount.html

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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