Looking for a Tracking Mount

[Joshua Fulker]

Hey, I've been looking for a mount for my 8 inch skywatcher reflector for a while now and can't decide what mount to buy. The requirements i am looking for are the following:

Goto system or synscan 

10+ kg weight capacity 

Tripod

My budget is around £500. I was wondering if anyone could suggest some good mounts or point me into the right direction. 

My goal is to get better at astrophotography, my previous mount was a dobson mount ( which came with the scope ) but does not have any features to track objects which doesn't help when doing astrophotography. Tnanks

[Moonshane]

A used HEQ5 skyscan would work but that's a big scope to start astrophotography with.

 

[Stu]

Yep, have a read of 'Making Every Photon Count' by Steve Richard's before making any decisions!

Small scope, big mount seems to be the path most often trod to AP success!

[StarryEyed]

Keep saving....

In the mean time use what ever camera you have in what ever way you can.

Edited April 23, 2019 by StarryEyed