Yubo

1 hour ago, Dinglem said:

@Yubo Hi and welcome to SGL,first thing everyone will need to know is what is your budget as that may narrow down the available mounts to suggest to you. You will idealy require a GEM (German Equitorial Mount) or similar. There are several makes available but knowing how much you would like to spend will help.

Thanks, I have updated the budget. It's around £600 to 800.

I was using the Celestron GOTO mount came with the NexStar SLT 127. It's quite complicated to get it auto control and align as you need to purchase extra StartSense and WiFi module. Also I heard that although this mount can do tracing,  it's not very good at it. Therefore thinking to replace it to a EQ mount.

1 hour ago, vlaiv said:

Hi and welcome to SGL.

I'm inclined to recommend something like this:

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/ioptron-mounts/ioptron-cem26-center-balanced-equatorial-goto-mount.html

rather than that ES mount.

In combination with:

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/zwo-accessories/zwo-asiair-pro-wireless-astrophotography-controller.html

will give you much better mobile imaging platform that you can control over your phone.

Thank you very much for the recommendation!

I do have a question regarding to the setup. It seems like the Asiair pro is able to perform the GOTO feature so do I still need the Ipolar to perform polar alignment? Or they are completely different thing?

Regards,

Yubo

1 hour ago, Astro Caller said:

HI Yubo 

What's your top budget?

Thanks 

Sorry, forgot to mention, budget is around £600-£800.

Hi all!

I'm looking for a mount as I recently purchase a 80mm refractor. Want to do some astrophotographing when traveling outside big city. Therefore I'm trying to find a mount that can handle the load (refractor + camera is round 4kg) and has some fancy "high tech" stuff like controllable via APP and auto guiding etc..

I did some googling and only found Explore Scientific iEXOS 100 which seems to be the most suitable one but can't find any stocks in the UK. So I want to know if there are other choices around. What's your suggestion? Update: budget is around £600-£800.

Clear Sky!

Yubo