Skywatcher SolarQuest Mount for the Sun with Tracking for Photo Tripods

The Skywatcher SolarQuest Mount makes Solar Observation easy and safe

With the mount SolarQuest, Skywatcher offers a mount tailored only for solar observation and solar photography. Thanks to the innovative HelioFind technology, sun observation is safe and easy even for beginners. The dangerous sighting of the sun is completely eliminated.

Solar observation and photography - simple and effective as never before:

Position the tripod reasonably horizontally.

Align the solar telescope somewhere to the left of the sun (east of the sun). A rough alignment is enough.

By pressing just one button, the sun is precisely centred thanks to HelioFind technology - fully automatically.

The mount uses the GPS data to calculate the current position of the sun, the telescope moves to the required height and the fully automatic centering starts.

As soon as the sun is centered, the automatic tracking starts immediately and the sun remains exactly in the middle of the field. You can start with observation or photography.

The applications of the SolarQuest mount:

Solar observation

Solar photography

Planet transit in front of the sun, for example Mercury

Solar eclipse

An important hint:

The SolarQuest mount is designed only for use with solar telescopes and telescopes with an objective (front) solar filter. Do not point any other optical device at the sun. Observing the sun without a safe, professionally manufactured solar filter causes immediate, permanent damage to the eyes and telescope and also represents a risk of fire.*]

Experience report from a customer

Our customer Günther Popp from Cologne (Germany) uses the SolarQuest with a Lunt LS40THa DS (with a double-stack filter) and briefly describes his experience with the mount here:

"I bought the SolarQuest mount for my Lunt LS40 THa DS. I first used it at Mehmet Ergün´s astrophotography workshop in Tenerife. It´s extremely easy to use, and the mount aligns with the Sun quickly and reliably. Once you make a slight adjustment the first time and save the setting, you can capture the Sun´s disk without having to make major adjustments in the imaging software (FireCapture). I think the little SolarQuest was a good investment."

Mr. Popp has provided a nice example, which we are happy to share:

Object: Sun in H-alpha light

Photographer: Günther Popp, Cologne (Germany)
Telescope: Lunt LS40THa with dual-stacking etalon (for example, item 40THA-PPK)
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI294MM (item ASI294MM)
Mount: Sky-Watcher SolarQuest (item 20320 or 20322)
Date and time of capture: September 8, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
Software: FireCapture, Registax, Photoshop

We would like to thank Günther Popp for his hands-on report and congratulate him on the successful photograph!

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