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omaroo
April 17th, 2008, 04:29 PM
Yay! I finally have a polar mount I can image with. I'm so over not being in a position to be able to guide. My particular EQ5 was junk, the worms were terrible and it didn't have any electronics. Basic motor-driven EQ5 with 60 arc-sec PE - the imagers dream!

Anyhoo - picked up this brand new non-Gemini guy from BinTel today. Thanks Don, Mike & Michael!

Coming soon is an Argo Navis - push-to appeals to me.

Should be great with the C8 and little Tak guiding it. On occasion I'll put the Megrez 80 on and use it to guide, and image through the Tak - or vice-versa. If I put on the Megrez to guide the C8 as standard configuration, I can still use the Tak on the SkyPatrol-II mount at the same time. Can't wait.....

This and the new (2nd hand) 350D I bought this week (off to Hong Kong soon for some mods) will get the astrophotography juices flowing again.... or I give up!

http://www.omaroo.net/albums/album34/DSC_6959_800.jpg
mattwastell
April 17th, 2008, 04:56 PM
Congrats Chris

Look forward to your images.

Bintel folk are really helpful.

See ya
hpcoolahan
April 17th, 2008, 06:45 PM
hey there omaroo,
There's a bloke in australia who does the mods on 350d cameras, was going to get him to do my 400d but he doesnt do them at the moment.

heres the link mate

http://khromagery.com.au/ir_conversions.html

otherwise i highly recomend Hutech in the USA for the modification , i got my camera new and already modified from them.
Great service and good price.
Cheers
Patrick
Radar
April 18th, 2008, 12:40 PM
Awesome Chris, they are good mounts, you will have a ball with it. I didn't realise you could connect argo navis up to a Losmandy.

Ray
omaroo
April 19th, 2008, 10:11 AM
Tahnks all :) Can't wait to use it.


Awesome Chris, they are good mounts, you will have a ball with it. I didn't realise you could connect argo navis up to a Losmandy.

Ray
Ray - the encoders that Wildcard supply are original-equipment Losmandy 8,192-step units. I've used Zane Hammond's (Magellan Observatory, NSW) G-11 equipped with Argo Navis and a Celestron 9.25 mounted on it for some great photography one weekend (top place to go and rent a scope or six - http://home.goulburn.net.au/~magellan/ ), and it was a distinct pleasure to operate. Much quieter than GOTO and arguably faster to boot.

http://www.wildcard-innovations.com.au/kits/pn-g11-l-spec_describe.html