Which EQ mount is this

[Arran townsend]

Hi, I'm new in astronomy and I'm after a mount which I can mount my DSLR to and fit a motor drive to, I have found a low cost telescope and mount but I'm not sure if it's an EQ1 or EQ2, to me they look similar

[emadmoussa]

It's probably the same as this one, which means it could be a generic, basic equatorial mount. 

[Sunshine]

 EQ2 maybe?, i see an RA drive on there unless i'm missing something here. Found it actually, bet its generic, sold by Voyager looks like, Astro 3 EQ mount, link below.  

 

http://www.egy-telescopes.com/mount-eq-.html

 

 

[Mr niall]

Either way it looks like uncomfortable viewing experience if you look at where the diagonal is ?

[Rob]

Ah.. pipped me to it!.

German Astro-3 was sold via TS Optics. I borrowed one many moons ago. Really nice piece of kit. Its basically an EQ-3, and at the time was the better engineered of the two (very smooth) you can still buy an RA drive for it also.

Rob

[Arran townsend]

Thank you everyone for your helpful comments, would this be ok for astrophotography?

[Arran townsend]

8 hours ago, Mr niall said:

Either way it looks like uncomfortable viewing experience if you look at where the diagonal is ?

I'm not sure what you mean.

[tooth_dr]

1 hour ago, Arran townsend said:

I'm not sure what you mean.

The bit you look through - the diagonal - is pointed to the ground. You should get at least another fiver off because of this. 

[Mr niall]

23 hours ago, Arran townsend said:

I'm not sure what you mean.

 

[Arran townsend]

On 14/07/2018 at 12:38, tooth_dr said:

The bit you look through - the diagonal - is pointed to the ground. You should get at least another fiver off because of this. 

Very good lol