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Old 27-12-2011, 09:35 PM
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Peter Ward
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Ok...dealer hat off for a bit...

Scott Losmandy and I have been good friends for decades. While solving the problems of the world over many Margaritas the subject of a portable tracking mount would come up every few years...

...and finallly...Scott delivered a highly modified G-8...I suspect to keep me quiet

I tested the prototype last winter. It went to Ayers Rock and back, lived in a small camera bag, set up in a minute or two, didn't incurr an excess baggage charge...sad thing was... being a prototype the North-South drive direction was screwed up (since fixed...and then some.)

But it got way better....

Losmandy makes a line of Cine-PortaJib products, the accessories of which you can combine with two or more StarLapse drives to create a Dolly or Crab motion etc. with time lapse.

You can even add a Gemini II and have a full GoTo mount if you want.

I digress.

With a small AA battery pack, tripod and StarLapse you can track the stars...or comets...do a time-lapse pan at numerous rates with a RA head that was designed for a 8 inch Schmit-Cassegrain ( I love over-engineered stuff)

I own 2 Starlapse systems...all I need now is some decent weather!

Hope that helps

Last edited by Peter Ward; 27-12-2011 at 09:49 PM.
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