Montura HEQ5 heavy Duti

[Ricardo Gomez]

Hola a todos tengo una duda ¿ Es posible mover una montura HEQ5 heavy Duti con un pc y stellarium a modo de go to? Está montura no lleva go to solo motores AR y DEC. gracias y un saludo.

[Cornelius Varley]

18 hours ago, Ricardo Gomez said:

Hello everyone I have a question Is it possible to move a mount HEQ5 heavy Duti with a pc and stellarium as a go to? This mount does not carry go to only AR and DEC engines. thanks and greetings.

Hello and welcome to SGL. The basic HEQ5 mount cannot be controlled through a pc/stellarium.

[Ricardo Gomez]

23 hours ago, Ricardo Gomez said:

Hola a todos tengo una duda ¿Es posible mover una montura HEQ5 heavy Duti con un pc y stellarium a modo go to? Está montura no lleva go to solo motores AR y DEC. gracias y un saludo.

 

[AstroMuni]

If the HEQ5 has both RA & DEC motors, it should technically be possible to control with PC. In the Go-to version there is a single input to control both these motors, but if these motors have been added as separate units you would need specialised software to manage them.

[malc-c]

Very early HEQ5's were not GoTo mounts.  They had a basic two gear worm drive and used a four button directional handset that tracked in siderial.  I've been trawling the net to find images, as these are now quite rare, but here is an example 

 

Ignore the DIY electronics.  You can see that there are two large gears, one on the axis worm the other on the drive motor.   

IF the OP's HEQ5 has the same gearing then they will have to purchase and install a full GoTo upgrade kit to make the mount compatible with computer control via a PC.  Additional hardware such as an EQDIR cable would be required to make that connection.

However given the cost of this upgrade is likely to cost £430 (plus the EQDIR cable) it would be wise to consider putting that money towards a new HEQ5 mount which IMO would be the better option.