Is anyone guiding their star adventurer?

[JohnPh]

Is anyone who is using the Skywatcher star adventurer using autoguiding? 

I'd be interested in your opinions and how you have the unit set up.

TIA

[JohnPh]

I wonder if a nice MOD could move this to the  discussions-Mounts sub forum please?

[StuartJPP]

Has anyone actually even taken an image using one, guided or unguided? I think it has been cloudy and miserable since it was introduced...

[Davey-T]

Taken lot's of images with mine, purchased it as a stand alone grab and go mount so autoguiding needing a lap top defeats the object, it can do 90secs with 300mm lens which is fine for me.

Dave

[Tinker1947]

This  unguided single Cygnus image to check the tracking, Canon 600D, 100mm F2 @ 2.8, ISO 800, 300 sec exposure, the history gram needs dragging back for the right hand side, the tracking look good.......

[orly_andico]

i used to have one and i used to guide it.. RMS guiding performance is quite similar to large China mounts surprisingly. of course the payload is much less.

http://orlygoingthirty.blogspot.sg/2014/07/sky-watcher-star-adventurer-portable-eq.html

RMS guiding around 2"

of course no guiding in DEC.

I don't have the Star Adventurer anymore as I got a (much heavier - 7kg vs 1kg for the EQ head) Tak EM11.  I can still carry the EM11 + tripod out in one trip so portable enough for me.