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Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Mini Tracking Mount
Keywords: Basic Astrophotography
Description
Currently there are 4 requests to borrow this.
Note: This equipment includes a small equatorial mount that must be carefully polar aligned and may be confusing for beginners.
Star Adventurer Mini is a high precision, portable and stable tracking platform for sidereal, solar and lunar tracking with automatic DSLR shutter release control. It is useful as a tracking platform to capture wide-field images of the Milky Way, or as a compact travel mount. The Equipment Manager can provide advice on setting up the equatorial mount.
A Star Adventurer Latitude Base is included and provides a smooth and reliable way to polar align your mount. With internal gearing the Latitude Base makes aligning to the north celestial pole easy and repeatable. A MeFoto GlobeTrotter with a ball head is also provided.
Details
- Ideal for wide-field photography
- console app for total control of the Star Adventurer Mini
- Customizable speeds, including sidereal, solar and lunar
- Polar finderscope for alignment with Polaris
- DSLR camera interface with automatic shutter control
- V-style dovetail saddle, with ability to mount ball head for easier camera movement
Please note that a DSLR is not provided with this package. The.Star Adventurer Mini is controlled by an app that you must download and install into a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet.
The descriprion and the photo are obtained from the Sky-Watcher USA website. More information about this mount can be found at http://www.skywatcherusa.com/star-adventurer-mini/ and http://www.skywatcherusa.com/product/star-adventurer-latitude-eq-base/ .
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Requests to Borrow
There are 4 other members with requests to borrow this equipment.