My new Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro mount (Explored)

Photograph by Doug Griffith: www.flickr.com/photos/138256409@N08

 

Well friends, the journey and the story continues as you can see from this photo taken today.

 

As some of you know, I have wanted my own a full-featured equatorial mount for Deep Sky Astrophotography for a long time now and this week something happened that only further increased my determination to get one. That experience was me having at my disposal my astro-buddy Doug's 5-hour stack of quality images of the Orion and Running Man Nebula to play with.

 

I posted the processed image in some astro-forums the other day. Doug took these images last week on his new Sky-Watcher EQ6-R mount. This is the very same mount that I also bought and briefly owned this past summer - the one I got a hernia moving and had to send back because it was just far too big and heavy for me. In fact, Doug and I bought our mounts at the same time during the same sale in June, the difference is that Doug is a much bigger, stronger guy than me and I got a hernia and he didn't. I'm glad for him.

 

Well, after spending 3 days in heaven this week with his M42-M43 images I finally said, "That's it, I can't wait any longer I MUST have my own EQ mount and I must have it NOW!"

 

So after convincing my dear wife of 47 years that this would be a wonderful thing for her husband (and promising not to get another hernia), I went out and bought a brand new Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro on sale. This mount is a solid little mount that guides really well and is used by many folks to produce fabulous astro-images. It's the little brother of the EQ6 and EQ6-R and weighs about half as much, and It's perfect for me.

 

Anyways, it's a happy day at Rudy's house today so I thought I would invite you all to the party!!

 

Cheers,

Rudy

Done