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happy-kat

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  1. Picking up on what the OP mentioned which was goto and not heavy what about the skywatcher star adventurer GTI with a small refractor though there's no mention if the budget is for mount, telescope and camera.

    Or an all in one like the ZWO seestar s50, which is mount, telescope,goto, processing and camera in one all in one unit and slightly past budget. I've not seen it or used one.

    https://www.firstlightoptics.com/beginner-telescopes/zwo-seestar-s50-all-in-one-smart-apo-telescope-tripod.html

  2. Welcome

    It's great you can see opportunity to use what you already have to get going.

    You don't mention post processing what's been captured.

    I could not see a guide telescope mentioned to go with the ASI120MM

    If looking to touch as little as possible there's the interesting looking ZWO seestar50 (not yet fully launched I don't think)

  3. I fired mine up tonight just to double check before I posted as I've not had the problem shared on the OP's earlier post. I had previously updated the firmware to EQ version to have choice but for now I'm in altaz mode use but I did change to mounting the OTA on the right hand side and like this the az-gti is behaving as expected for left right up down

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  4. I've found my az-gti has a weak WiFi signal in my home if it's a distance from where I'm sat so I have plugged in a synscan dongle into the mount, this works for me and I can place the az-gti outside. The mount works great with the synscan pro app which I use in az mode.

    Hope you can sort your mount connection out.

    EDIT my comment relates to az-gti and not the star adventurer

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  5. The journey does not need to start at the end a little tweak to great post above

    Az-gti, pillar and suitable tripod and battery is good, can get using in az-gti to image just stick within field rotation. I keep it simple with what I'm doing with either onboard camera trigger synscan pro app or an intervolameter

    Later can think about expanding such installing the skywatcher eq firmware (voids warranty) get a wedge, cable mentioned above (can still be used in altaz or eq)

    Then later still consider asiair or pi or astro camera

    What about adding guiding etc.

    Though I've not used one but a star tracker would I think work out the box and the az-gti from reading posts isn't always out the box great at imaging it's primarily a visual mount. There are owners threads for both to see more.

    Enjoy your research

     

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