Posted by Antonio Soffici on July 20, 2001, 12:33 pm
Hi, I'd like to know if any of you guys has ever heard of a mount one can use with the camera alone, to shoot wide-angle pictures of the heavens above. I've seen the new Kenko Single axis tracking mount on the Hutech website and I'm aware of something made in the past by Byers. Can anybody help? Of course, it'd be nice if the mount were fully "balanceable" and had provisions for guiding with a little refractor and/or a CCD autoguider...or am I asking for too much? Probably I'd be better off buying something like the GM8 from Losmandy or a CG-something from Celestron, but they tend to have features (databases of objects, etc.) I'm not interested in: infact I intend to aim the camera via The Sky or Guide software. Of course this would be at the maximum level of system complexity, but the basic idea is: get something that can be very easy to use BUT can get really precise if you so wish/need.
Thanks
Antonio
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