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Old 17-11-2022, 10:08 AM
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I have now used my compact equipment for two seasons. It's based on the HEQ5 mount and a lot of 3D-printed brackets, gears, feet, lids. With the knowledge I collected I now update most of the brackets with the goal to have it more stiff. I'm very satisfied with my equipment. The widefield telescope, or astrograph I should say maybe, is a Pentax 645 300 mm ED f/4 medium format lens, a Canon EOS 6D fullframe camera.

This is the last modifications:
http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/...5/19-heq5.html

Total weight 24 kg included the battery, for the first time I can now put all these stuff in my car (very small car) and drive to dark places.

What boring life had been without the 3D-printer.

/Lars
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