eq2 motordrive skywaycher

[narrow linden]

Should i buy this?

“Skywatcher”

I’ve thought about this one also but the other one is cheaper

Anyone who would recommend any of these ones?

[copper osprey]

The first one is really bad, the second can actually help

The eq2 in general isn't great tbh

[prisma wolf]

Wouldn't say that i could do 30s exposures at 300m with a eq1 with an eq1 drive like this

[narrow linden]

Yh idk I’m just a beginner

[copper osprey]

which one of the drives? if the first one I can only bow to you, I had it with my astromaster and never managed to do anything with it

[prisma wolf]

The first one as a eq1 version...

[prisma wolf]

That's a lot different then with a dslr and Lens

@narrow linden what gear do you want to use with it?

[copper osprey]

yeah dslr and lens is definitely easier to track

[narrow linden]

Huh? Sorry I’m pretty new do you mean how fast I want it to move or what?

[prisma wolf]

Now if you want to do Astrophotography and with wich telescope camera etc on the mount

[narrow linden]

I’m don’t actually have a camera yet but I’m prob buying one sooner or later but idk which camera I should buy

[pliant mango]

Guys

What are your thoughts about this

I thought that I needed a continuous rotation of my telescope so this wasn't something I could get from and Eq2 so I did this

It really works nicely for me

[narrow linden]

Nice do you need to adjust it sometimes or does it follow the object smoothly

[copper osprey]

you don't need the motor on the dec, it doesn't have to move all the time

[pliant mango]

Yes so I live in a city so If I have some correction errors which I always have I just need to adjust the speed of the second one depending on it

[narrow linden]

Oh he has 2 on it? I didn’t see that

[pliant mango]

Yes the one which dose the roll is the main one

The second one which dose the yaw is for correction

[copper osprey]

if the dec has to run all the time then you polar alignment must be kinda bad

[pliant mango]

I have the moon 13 minutes on my eyepeace

But there's a issue with this

When I'm doing astro photography it's a little bit noisy

Because of vibrations but it's ignored by me

It's simply fixable by editing

But mastering phone astrophotography with this setup takes time

In this cases we mostly have to rely on getting more data than everyone else and be great at editing them properly otherwise we are left with a boring image

[copper osprey]

using a phone as main camera is very limiting on its own

that's not bad at all tho, considering the equipment

[pliant mango]

It's been two days that I'm gathering the data needed for a really revolutionary image for my self

Considering that two weeks later my exams are starting again

[narrow linden]

So that is stacked pics taken with your phone?

[hearty nacelle]

Isn’t terrible but there are cheaper and better alternatives.I would recommend looking for some 3d printed solution to attach a stepper motor that would provide better tracking

But it does require you to have some electronics and programming skills to figure it out

[pliant mango]

Yes

But after all depending on your setup and the type of your astrophotographing: (deep sky photographing ) or (planetary photographing) you can decide if you need to spend a lot for tracking or not .