Skywather 150P on Skywatcher SupaTrak mount

[dannybgoode]

Does anyone know whether the above would work - is the mount adequate for the OTA?

I emphasise the word adequate, I appreciate it is not the world's best mount - at the moment it just needs to work ok, take the weight etc and when funds allow will upgrade to something decent.

Thanks for your help

[dannybgoode]

Apologies - I cannot find the 'edit' option.  Or would the Skywatcher EQ2 mount work?

Thanks again

[ronin]

This reads as if you have the supatrak mount and want to try putting on it the 150P OTA.

If so what was on the Supatrak originally.

It helps to have an idea of what weight it was carrying.

[dannybgoode]

No idea. I am looking for a second hand mount to go with the 150P ota I have sourced.

I know the Supatrak will take a 130P but not sure about the extra weight of the 150

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[Cornelius Varley]

The EQ2 won't be capable of holding the 150P and the Supatrak may be just be adequate. 

ps you need 250 posts to be able to edit your posts and  there is also a 30 minute limit before the post is locked.

[ronin]

Reading everything there is a fair chance that it might.

FLO says: SupaTrak Heavy-Duty Motorised Multi-Speed Auto-Tracking Alt-Azimuth Mount

As if it is more then capable of the 130P

In the general blurb about the mount they also say:

The new SupaTrak™ mount shares more than a passing resemblance to the Celestron SLT, but the somewhat quieter and heavier duty SupaTrak sports a more robust Vixen-style dovetail clamp…

As the SLT takes a 130 as standard one could surmise that the SW Supatrak will take a bit more.

You may need tube rings and a dovetail to make the attachment, so that adds a bit and good balance would be required. Will say that if you start adding cameras etc then you are likely going to overload it.

Sort of boarder line. Get a well balanced coin: Heads go for it, Tails wait get a heavier mount.