iOptron
SkyGuider Pro Mount with iPolar
SkyGuider Pro Mount with iPolar
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Use you camera to take stunning images of the night sky. Includes the iOptron iPolar Electronic Polar Scope for easy polar alignment.
Having difficulty to polar align, especially in Southern Hemisphere? We have a solution: SkyGuider Pro with built-in iPolar!
The SkyGuider Pro -- iOptron's next generation camera tracking device! Leading the camera tracker market for nearly four years, iOptron's SkyGuider Pro pushes closer to perfection.
The redesigned SkyGuider Pro mount head is more compact, small enough to fit on your palm, better precision, silent tracking, built-in rechargeable power source, ST-4 guiding port and camera trigger port. The DEC mounting bracket allows you to balance a heavy camera and/or lens better, or even mount a light telescope.
This mount has an integrated electronic polar finder scope known as the iPolar. This tool ensures the accurate alignment of a telescope, even when the pole star is obscured. There are large levers on the quick-lock drive engagement system; these large levers make it easy to snap the gears into place.
The SkyGuider Pro features four tracking rates, 1X or sidereal, 1/2X for sky and landscape combined, solar and lunar. All 4 tracking rates work in both northern and southern hemispheres. We have also added a quick slew mode with both forward and reverse to help quickly reframing your image without disrupting the cameras position.
We have made big improvements on the SkyGuider removable alt-azimuth base, which features a precision bubble level, degree markings for the altitude and a built in post for the azimuth control.
The DEC mounting bracket package, which includes DEC mounting bracket, counterweight shaft, counterweight and Vixen-type dovetail saddle, makes the SkyGuider Pro mount suitable for a heavier camera/lens system, even a lightweight telescope.
The SkyGuider Pro is certainly a must have tool for any photographer interested in astroscape or wide field astrophotography.
What's in the box:
- SkyGuiderTM Pro camera mount
- Alt-azi base (installed)
- AccuAlignTM dark field illuminated polar scope (installed)
- Micro USB charging cable
- Padded carry bag
- DEC mounting bracket w/ camera mounting disk
- 1.35kg counterweight
- CW shaft
- One Year Limited Warranty (90 day on battery)
Product specs:
| Mount | Compact single axis tracking EQ | |
| Payload | 5kg maximum, balanced | |
| Mount weight |
1kg with battery
1.45kg with battery and base |
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| Body material | All metal | |
| RA Shaft | Φ35mm, steel | |
| Worm Wheel | Φ88mm, 144 teeth aluminum alloy | |
| Worm Gear | 15.2 mm, brass | |
| Bearing | 4 pieces | |
| Motor Drive | DC servo motor with optical encoder | |
| Tracking | RA automatic | |
| Tracking Speed | 1X Cel, 1/2 Cel, solar, lunar, N/S | |
| Fast slew speed | 144X, forward and reverse | |
| Guiding Port | ST-4 compatible | |
| Polar Scope | AccuAlign TM dark field illuminated (~6º FOV) | |
| Camera Trigger | Yes | |
| Power Requirement | Internal rechargeable battery | |
| Battery type | Li-Poly, 3.7V, 2000mAh | |
| Duration of operation | up to 20 hours at 20°C | |
| Power charge port | Micro USB (5V), 80% charge in 5 hours | |
| Camera mounting block | Φ62mm, 3/8" post thread | |
| Body base connection | Vixen dovetail, 3/8” socket (1/4” converter) | |
| Alt-Azi adjustable base | Vixen style saddle, 3/8” socket | |
| Alt-Azi adjustable base diameter | Φ80 mm | |
| Latitude adjustment range | -30º ~ 65º (with alt-azi base) | |
| Azimuth adjustment range | ±5º | |
| Level indicator | Level bubble | |
| Body Dimensions | 133x115x95 mm (w/o alt-azi base) | |
| Counterweight shaft | Φ20x200 mm w/ 3/8”-16 threads | |
| Counterweight | 1.35kg | |
| Firmware upgrade | Yes (via USB port) | |
| Operation Temperature | -10ºC ~40ºC | |
| Warranty | One year limited (90 day on battery) |
