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Geo.
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/01/08
Loc: Upstate NY
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Re: ASA mount
[Re: GeorgeFC]
#4484511 - 03/30/11 12:27 PM
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Think S&T did a short write up on this mount last year. With the Paramount @ $12.5K I'm not sure what the 55 hundred gets you.
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Starhawk
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Reged: 09/16/08
Loc: Tucson, Arizona
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Re: ASA mount
[Re: GeorgeFC]
#4484528 - 03/30/11 12:32 PM
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I spend a grand total of 15 minutes getting an accurate alignment on NexStar controlled mounts, and I can start shooting photos in the early evening, and I'll use that alignment until the approaching dawn ends my photography session. To spend a couple of hoes building pointing files frankly sounds absurd. I've never needed hours to get an autoguider running, so again, it just doesn't seem reasonable to lose your best observing hours each night you use a mount to setup. And that's what I am getting at: early on, there is a learning curve, but there us an expectation of it going away. Having to build new pointing files every time is a lot of work.
And for power consumption, the alternatives really need to include mounts without a sepatatate computer drive which are autoguidable. To make the comparison alternative only the Paramount isn't a realistic trade.
-Rich
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