{"id":427,"date":"2025-02-22T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/?p=427"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:05:45","slug":"new-scope-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/22\/new-scope-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"New Scope & Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I recently picked up a new scope & goto mount, primarily to be a Portable setup, so weight & size were the most important when I was looking around. I used an old tripod that came with a Meade 4.5″ Newtonian GEM but had the head damaged many, many years ago. The legs were still in good shape and it felt as if it could handle the 7-10 Kg of the new mount & refractor scope. The tripod head was rebuilt while waiting for the new equipment to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ED70F6 & iOptron SkyHunter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The GoTo mount (Thing Between the Telescope & the Tripod) is an iOptron SkyHunter 3700. The mount itself is very light weight, WiFi capable & capacity of 10lbs (including counter weight!). The mount is a bit Quirky, but it did interface with Stellarmate after I managed to translate some very Chinglish instructions. The Clutches (Red knobs) on the mount are absolutely HORRIFIC to use! Full Stop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scope is an SVBony 70mm F6 Telescope with 2″ focuser, perfect for my ZWO 183 camera. I choose the 70mm model over the 80mm simply because of weight. ED70 is 2.2Kg whereas ED80 is 3.3Kg & with my camera & accessories would put the mount over it’s weight limit & I’m pushing that now. For the price, this little scope was a pleasant surprise upon first impressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a link to the very first image taken & processed with the new scope & mount on Feb 20\/21, 2025 which was the first night the setup was put outdoors. Of course, the first few nights are more about learning the quirks & working out bugs, but in between the jiggs & reels, I did manage to sneek in a few frames of an extremely familiar nebula to most people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Light Images<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I recently picked up a new scope & goto mount, primarily to be a Portable setup, so weight & size were the most important when I was looking around. I used an old tripod that came with a Meade 4.5″ Newtonian GEM but had the head damaged many, many years ago. The legs were still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}