Hello. I'm curious: how did you balance the mount with the guide scope and camera on such a mount? I have an EQ3. I'm wondering if it can handle an autoguider with the camera, or if I need another counterweight.
Hello, Irina! For balancing, the standard counterweights of 2.5+1.5 kg were sufficient. However, the mount ends up overloaded, and such a setup can only be used productively in completely calm conditions; otherwise, there's a lot of unusable data or guiding becomes impossible altogether. M33 is the only object I managed to capture. In the end, I switched to an HEQ5.
9 Feb, 2024
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