For sale is my iOptron SkyTracker v2 astrophotography mount. I'm the original owner and have owned it for about a year but have moved up to a larger mount. It's in excellent and like-new condition. I've heard reports of people having difficulty with the battery tray but mine works fine and the door latches closed perfectly.
It tracks very, very well. Below are sample images of both fully processed images and a 100% of a 60 second sub at 200 mm.
My price is $290 with shipping and PayPal included. Why $290 when you can just buy a new one for $300? I'm including the iOptron dovetail
with mounting hardware. This piece alone retails for $40 (and iOptron doesn't even include the necessary mounting hardware!). This enables a few extra things: offloading the ballhead to the side to enable larger setups to clear the mount and/or polarscope, and allows for mounting a second camera if you have another ballhead. Also, I know this particular unit has good tracking given the length of exposures I've managed at 200 mm and 400 mm (see images below).
Price: $290 with shipping and PayPal included. Venmo also accepted.
Shipping: USPS to the U.S.
Feedback: I've bought and sold quite a number of things here at POTN, on FM, and on eBay (username NFO_1) and have 100% feedback everywhere.
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Included is the original zippered bag, the polar scope, the SkyTracker unit itself, the dovetail bar and the mounting hardware. Obviously you'll have to supply your own tripod, ballhead, camera and lens! And 4 AA batteries.
This first image is the result of 62 individual 1 minute sub frames stacked together. Also to note, this was the first target I imaged on the first night I used the SkyTracker... it was literally my first time ever using an astrophotography mount!
Antares Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex by Shaman Tanthew, on FlickrEach subframe looked like so:
And a 100% crop of the above to show the round stars at 200 mm at 60 second exposure:
Another example:
Orion: from the Flame to the Horse to the Running Man to M42 by Shaman Tanthew, on FlickrThis last one was just a "see what it can do" test... 400 mm (my Canon 200 mm f/2.8 + 2x teleconverter) at 60 second exposures... obviously pushing beyond what the SkyTracker was designed to do but it still holds it own:
Whirlpool M51-3 by Shaman Tanthew, on Flickr
