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AZ-EQ5 the wise choice?

Martthebass

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Steve Clay

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Sorry to resurrect an old thread. But does the AZ EQ5 have manual slow motion controls in both axis. I'm considering this mount but would only use it in alt az and would like the option to use without power.

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Steve

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I bought my AZ-EQ5 as I wanted something simple to set up for planetary observing. Simply using solar system align is good enough for observing the moon or Jupiter etc. without having to do a proper a

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I got an AZ-EQ5 on the back of the exact same thought process. Unfortunately, I find performance in AZ is frustrating. It works, but there’s quite a lot of slop in the AZ axis that can’t be tweaked ou

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