I am offering up my ASA DDM85 Premium. It was purchased in March 2013.
Current cost new in Australia would be aprox $38,000AUD.
I will part with it for $19,000AUD + Shipping Costs, by direct deposit.
It comes with the specially built equatorial (bent) pier that will need to be altered for your latitude by a having the angles of the pier rebuilt/re-welded. With this pier - No more meridian flips!!!!
No wasting time when the target is at the meridian and giving you the best data. The pier is made by ASA and is an awesome piece of engineering - not a locally made clone - very heavy duty. This pier is amazing and fantastically easy to acheive accurate polar alignment with the excellent ASA software - AutoSlew software - make a superfit model. Sequence software is included to automate the whole nights imaging - no need to buy software such as CCDAutoPilot.
It is rated to carry an OTA up to 100kg. I am parting with it because my OTA is too heavy for it. You can see the mount in operation here as well as images taken recently with this mount:
https://savannahskies.smugmug.com/
State of the art - no periodic error direct drive mount! No need for guiding!!
http://www.astrosysteme.at/images/DD..._Datasheet.pdf
MLPT (Local Multi-Precision Tracking) is currently the fastest method for ASA DDM mounts to precisely track without an autoguider. With MLPT automatically a "local" pointing model will be created to ensure a particular celestial object is tracking superbly without autoguiding. The operation is quite easy to achieve - success in a few minutes!
Another DDM85 user who images, without autoguiding, with an ASA DDM85:
http://www.astro-pics.com/
Regards,
Tim Carruthers
