Skywatcher EQ5 Pro SynScan GoTo Mount with Travel Tripod

Skywatcher EQ5 Pro Synscan - computer controlled GoTo Mount

With the EQ5 SkyScan Pro, Skywatcher offers a fully equipped mount for portable telescopes.

The mount offers a completely equipped GoTo system with quiet stepper motors. Due to the ball bearing mounted RA axis, the EQ5 SynScan can be loaded with telescopes swith up to 10 kg weight.

A wonderful travel mount for astrophotography, thanks to the TravelTripod

The EQ5Synscan is excellently suitable for astrophotography. The TravelTripod improves the good properties even further and makes the mount attractive also for air travel.

Due to the half pier, the telescope will not hit the tripod that early, so you can go on imaging for a long time after the object has crossed the meridian.

The tripod can be collapsed to 60 cm transport length, more compact is hardly possible.

The TravelTripod puts the entire stability of the mount to the ground, you can use telescopes up to 10 kg.

Working height from approx. 105 cm to approx. 140 cm (heights of tripod and mount taken together)

The advantage of the EQ5 PRO SynScan:

Complete motorisation with dual-axis control via high-quality and quiet stepper motors

Automatic precise tracking of the celestial objects

Automatic locating of more than 42,900 objects

Autoguiding connection for astrophotography

Positioning precision of about one arc minute

Maxium slew speed 3.4° per second

Periodic error correction (PEC)

USB interface

Internet-upgradable firmware

Modern quick-release system - similar to the one of the GP/EQ mounts

The EQ5 Synscan can be loaded with telescopes up to 10 kg weight, like:

Refractor telescopes up to 150 mm aperture

Newtonian telescopes up to 200 mm aperture

Maksutov-Cassegrains up to 180 mm aperture

Schmidt-Cassegrains up to 200 mm aperture

Important note about power supply:

To avoid loss of warranty, please use only the power supplies and mobile supplies recommended by us. Especially simple car batteries or sealed lead-acid batteries can lead to an under-supply, which can then damage the sensitive electronics of the mount. Operating a Skywatcher GoTo mount with a non-proprietary power supply not recommended by us is at your own risk. Thank you for your understanding. Here is the link to more information: Notes_power_supply_SK_GoTo_en.pdf

Question:
How can I connect the hand controller to the PRO mount if the port for the hand controller is already connected to the EQMOD cable?

Answer from Teleskop-Service:
You can connect either the hand controller or the EQMOD/EQDIR cable. If you control the mount remotely via the computer, a hand controller is no longer necessary.

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