Observe freely without all the equipment hassle.
Worry free observations from flipping counterweights and tangling cables.
With mounts from Track The Stars, the Meridian flip and rotation of the Optical Tube Assembly known from German Equatorial Mounts (GEM) is history. These features give the Alt-Az mount some advantage.
Perfect eyepiece position.
When observing with an Alt-azimuth mount from Track The Stars, the eyepiece will always stay in a comfortable viewing position. Using a TTS-160 Panther Mount, you won’t need to readjust the diagonal’s angle or break your neck trying to look through the telescope. Everything stays in a position with no risk of an eyepiece dropping to the ground while the mount is flipping the telescope around.
Image and observe continuously from east to west.
With no meridian flip interrupting the best observations around the south (or north in the southern hemisphere), you can follow and image objects undisturbed from east to west.
Longer lasting collimation of the telescope.
You have been tweaking the collimation of your telescope to perfection to catch the finest details on Jupiter. Soon after, the mount performs a meridian flip, turning the telescope upside down, risking the movement of the mirrors in the mirror cell. Perhaps you have a robust mirror cell, making the movement minimal. But why run the risk?
With an alt-az mount from Track The Stars, there is no meridian flip and no Optical Tube rotation as known from equatorial fork mounts.
Easy cable management.
As you know, a fully astrophotography-enabled telescope contains cables for the imaging camera, the filter wheel, the focus motor, the guide telescope, dew bands, the mount itself and many more. They all have to be attached in a way so the telescope mount can swing and point freely anywhere in the sky. Adding a meridian flip to this system does not make things easier.
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Track The Stars is a Danish telescope mount manufacturer. The mounts are the TTS-160 Panther and TTS-300 Mammoth, two Alt-Azimuth telescope mounts with top-mounting saddles. The Alt-Az design gives it multiple advantages over Equatorial Mounts. These include no polar alignment, 4-minute set up, top mount saddle, no meridian flip, compact design, precise go-to and tracking, and much more.
