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Loc: North East Tennessee
Welcome, have fun and enjoy
Thanks, I think this should be fun and interesting. Although I'm hoping to find a group like this here in central Texas.
Steve
Welcome Stephen, I am also into astrophotography and I have two types of trackers: a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer and a Ioptron CEM 40. You mentioned the Dob and a EQ mount. Well, the Dob is a monster and it would be hard to mount on an EQ mount (EQ means equatorial). It is just too big, lengthwise. My friend has a 16" Dob and he has to use a step ladder to observe anything near the zenith. Great scope, but a real challenge to use, he even uses a motor drive on both the azimuth and altitude axes. However, he cannot use it for astrophotography since it is a Alt-Az mount instead of an EQ mount. You would need a permanent pier to mount it and be restricted on what you can see and a HUGE EQ mount to use with it. Again welcome and look at the astrophoto section for other people's work and advice. RFB
Stephan, a follow-up question; does your Meade have a GOTO hand controller on it? If it does, you can attach a camera to it, but it must be very light since you cannot balance the scope out with the present mount, which happens to be an ALT-Az mount. Will not work well with long exposures. RFB
Wow thanks RFB. this is good information. I wasn't really sure what kind of mount to use for the DOB. I didn't plan on using it for astrophotos, just for deep sky views. Need to find a motor like the one you spoke of.
Yes my Meade has a goto controller. Still having trouble with the alignment process. So when I found Jupiter and it's moon the thing didn't track properly. Need to go through the manual again and work on the alignment thing.
Thanks for replying.
Thank you I'm sure my son and I will get good info here.
DickC
Loc: NE Washington state
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