That's fantastic! I have the same scope and mount. I was wondering what the situation with backlash and guiding would be with a long focal length scope like your maksutov. Hiw have you found it?
I found the backlash to be really bad. The gears are not well made. Maybe my mount was a knock off of something much better. I gave up with the mount and got an Eq5 mount instead. It was before the pandemic when I finished motorising my Eq5 mount and I’ve never picked it up again and used it in anger. My view is that you really need an observatory to make use of a go to mount otherwise you spend so much time aligning it each time you want to use it. After buying a camera, a tracker and a fast lens I found capturing timelapse of the Milky Way and a few nebulae to be a very satisfying introduction to astronomy. Some of the stuff I captured is on my other channel youtube.com/@asfarasyouliketravel?si=rJHYPqiiVHdQehJ0
That's fantastic! I have the same scope and mount. I was wondering what the situation with backlash and guiding would be with a long focal length scope like your maksutov. Hiw have you found it?
I found the backlash to be really bad. The gears are not well made. Maybe my mount was a knock off of something much better. I gave up with the mount and got an Eq5 mount instead. It was before the pandemic when I finished motorising my Eq5 mount and I’ve never picked it up again and used it in anger. My view is that you really need an observatory to make use of a go to mount otherwise you spend so much time aligning it each time you want to use it. After buying a camera, a tracker and a fast lens I found capturing timelapse of the Milky Way and a few nebulae to be a very satisfying introduction to astronomy.
Some of the stuff I captured is on my other channel youtube.com/@asfarasyouliketravel?si=rJHYPqiiVHdQehJ0
@@julianporter5 You could tune it and get it to track sub arc second