MalVeauX wrote in post #16880490
Heya,
iOptron 3302B which is a later release from the original and holds more weight.
It's motorized. It has polar alignment (north & south) and two speeds of tracking, one that is relative to the earth so you can track stars overhead, and one that is slower so you can track stars at a slower rate, and still expose long enough to not completely blur a foreground object (like a tree or something), but it heavily reduces how long you can expose for (more like 1 minute, but that's way better than 30 seconds!). I don't bother polar aligning. I do all that stuff for up to 5 minutes, no problem, without aligning. I just face it north, put the latitude to 30 degrees (my location), and I'm done. I turn it on, and just point my lens, focus, and start exposing. Super simple.
Heya,
iOptron 3302B which is a later release from the original and holds more weight.
It's motorized. It has polar alignment (north & south) and two speeds of tracking, one that is relative to the earth so you can track stars overhead, and one that is slower so you can track stars at a slower rate, and still expose long enough to not completely blur a foreground object (like a tree or something), but it heavily reduces how long you can expose for (more like 1 minute, but that's way better than 30 seconds!). I don't bother polar aligning. I do all that stuff for up to 5 minutes, no problem, without aligning. I just face it north, put the latitude to 30 degrees (my location), and I'm done. I turn it on, and just point my lens, focus, and start exposing. Super simple.
Thank you
MalVeauX wrote in post #16880490
Barn door can hold more weight and likely track with telephoto better.
I can do 180mm~200mm decently for 1 minute or so on this iOptron. Definitely not meant for serious deep space stuff. But for wide field and things that are relatively close and large, like Andromeda and Orion, it does fine. Mostly I do wide field though as I mainly just like to shoot the Milky Way because frankly, it's easy.
Very best,
Barn door can hold more weight and likely track with telephoto better.
I can do 180mm~200mm decently for 1 minute or so on this iOptron. Definitely not meant for serious deep space stuff. But for wide field and things that are relatively close and large, like Andromeda and Orion, it does fine. Mostly I do wide field though as I mainly just like to shoot the Milky Way because frankly, it's easy.
Very best,
So you are saying it would not work (not hold the weight?) of my Sigma 150-500 am I correct?
