Orion selling Intelliscope for EQ5s!!

[GazOC]

http://www.telescope.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=91937&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=6&iSubCat=24&iProductID=91937

Its 'push to' rather than GOTO but it would be a nice setp with a cheap pair of motors, use the Intelliscope to find the object and then start the RA motor.

Hope this arrives over here, it's nicely priced as well (in the USA)

[russ]

Hi Gaz,

It's already here matey. Just gone up on the SCS Astro website as of Monday. £180 inc Vat. The Skyview Pro is only another EQ5 clone, so that should fit a heap of mounts. Bet it can be adapted for the EQ3 too.

http://www.scsastro.co.uk/it020002.htm

Russ

[FLO]

£180 !!!  For a Push-To :nono:

[GazOC]

blumming Orion $200 does not equal £180!! :clouds1:

[FLO]

If you can, best to wait 'til next year when, probably, there will be more choice

[GazOC]

Too late for me Steve, I've just finished a homebrew GOTO kit comprising of Meade DS motors.

[daz]

I take it that this tells you where you need to go, not go there for you, and tracks your RA and DEC via the encoders so you can see which direction you need to move.

Is this about right??

[GazOC]

Exactly right Daz,

Ones I've used let you enter the object, a number for each axis will come up on the screen and then you move mount axis until the reading for both is zero.

Gaz

[FLO]

Too late for me Steve, I've just finished a homebrew GOTO kit comprising of Meade DS motors.

Way to go Gaz

Will it be at the Star Meet?

Steve

[GazOC]

Steve,

It'll ge there, whether it'll be GOTOing is another matter . I've still got a few things to iron out, at the moment I've got it going to the general area and then I have to find the object myself.

I mainly got the DS motors because they can slew at x128 rather than the EQ5 standard of x16, it means I can forget all that "slacken clutches, find object, tighten clutches" thing and control the telescope entirely from the handset.

The GOTO tweeking will have to wait for the warmer nights........

Gaz