TTS-160 Panther Lite Mount
– premium manual alt-az telescope mount
At Track The Stars, we understand the challenges of finding time and a perfect location for stargazing. That’s why we’ve developed the TTS-160 Panther Lite – a versatile, portable, and high-capacity telescope mount designed for ultimate convenience and precision.
Key Advantages
- Incredibly lightweight and travel-friendly at only 7 kg
- Versatile mounting for up to three telescopes
- Effortless, and smooth manual control
- No power, cables, or screens needed—pure observing
- Comfort Balancing for perfect stability and eyepiece height
Rock-Solid and Built for Visual Observing – Video Review
– made by LearnToStargaze
We’re excited to share that a new in-depth video review of the TTS-160 Panther Lite Mount has just been published by LearntoStargaze, a hobby astronomer making all kinds of high-quality astronomy videos, reviews and guides for hobby astronomers. So, go check out the video and subscribe to their channel.
“And this is the coolest and most important part of comfort balancing. It’s the ability to install the telescope pushed far forward. This limits the height change of the eyepiece. Notice how little the eyepiece moves when it’s this close to the axle. This makes it much easier to view objects that are high in the sky.” – John
And if you want more astronomy content, we can’t recommend enough the Learn to Stargaze website.
Now you can put an 4kg or 8kg counterweight on the arm, and then slide your long refractor forward in its rings, thereby dramatically reducing eyepiece movement! And it works really, really well! By having this laterally movable weight, you can namely also very easily rebalance the scope laterally, when you change eyepieces.
The alt-az movement pattern of the mount is ideal for an observatory used by a large audience. The mount takes up less space than a traditional German Equatorial Mount of similar capacity and the eyepieces and other instruments are always situated in a good observing position.
My TTS-160 Panther mount is much easier to transport. It is extremely fast to setup and only one alignment star is needed with no mechanical alignment involved. … You immediately sense that the Panther is designed by someone who has tried to fumble with equipment in darkness with cold fingers. The mount has many elegant details and is mechanically very well constructed.
Sometimes uncomplicated visual is the way to go, and the TTS-160 Panther is about as easy, accurate and fun a mount for visual you can find and it does visual to with no polar alignment necessary. Imagine an Alt-Az mount designed for accurate go-to, simple and quick setup, and if you want, imaging.
