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Originally Posted by Eric Hahl
The new place has darker skies but it's much lower in the valley and seems to have crappy skies. Plus there are some large trees in way.
I've been eyeing up this type of mount. Maybe to use with a small, widefield scope.
Yes, the amount of time does suck but its a fun hobby for me none-the-less. |
Ugh...weird Chinese crap...
I Blueprinted a Celestron CG-4 mount (yes, the crappy white one) with a dual axis drive and ST-4 compatible port, and it will autoguide an 80mm f/5 refractor at .75 RMS arcseconds, or a 150mm f/5 Newt, close to it's weight limit, at about 1-1.1 RMS arcseconds.
Why go with some weird Chinese crap? ASCOM compliant, but with the LX200 driver? Probably the vestigial LX200 Classic compliance, which is almost just ST-4 level stuff? Yikes!
Heck, if you want a small sky tracker mount, look at the iOptron ones, everyone I know with an iOptron mount raves about it, we've Blueprinted more of them than any other brand, and they apparently have an impressive US based support system...they have shown to update mounts based on user input. Or find a used CEM25 or relatively new CEM26, they both punch WAY above their range.