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Cheap(ish) Canon for astro.

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OP cheddarman Senior Member • Posts: 1,616
Re: Cheap(ish) Canon for astro.
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Brave Sir Robin wrote:

How did you find it? Its always looked like a rabbit hole of money to me, Im not in anyway able to afford the gear so couldnt take it too far bvut it looks like a technical nightmare.

How did I find what, the tracking mount? At 84 I'm having a go at as much as I can, while I can so thought I'd try Astro. I bought a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer combo for £220 on Ebay. After my first attempts I realised its short comings, not good graticule illumination being the biggest problem, so I modified it  and also bought and made some adapters.

Once set up it worked a treat!

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