Skywatcher goto dobs.

[Mr Moff]

I was just wondering how well skywatchers goto dobs track objects?

Do they work well enough for astrophotography?

[ollypenrice]

Not for deep sky because for that you need extreme precision and an equatorial orientation, not an alt-azimuthal. (Think of Orion; when the hunter figure rises he's tilted to the left. When he sets he's titled to the right. That's the field rotation you cancel with an EQ mount.)

For introductory planetary and lunar webcomming I'd expect the auto dobs to be OK.

Olly

[Mr Moff]

Thanks olly.

I do have a 200p on an eq5 with tracking which works well, so I can keep using that and pickup a big Dob without goto.

Roll on Christmas.

[SeedyF]

My 250 goto tracks very well, if I set it up properly

But as Olly says it's not suitable for DSO astrophotography work in general - other than relatively short exposures. Excellent for Lunar & planetary stuff though.

[dph1nm]

If you can track for 30s you can do DSO photography.

NigelM