User: Chris Howey, United Kingdom
Now 3 years on, I can’t imagine moving back to an equatorial mount. I mainly image from home but have no room for a permanent set up. The Panther allows me to set up on my garden patio in 5 minutes. The mount amazingly requires no levelling and no polar alignment. I just place the sturdy pier in place, lift on the mount head, add the counterweights and my scope. I then plug in the handpad and the necessary cables and I am ready to do a simple 2 star alignment. The TTS Panther handpad is just a joy to use and speeding through the menus, the alignment is soon done. GOTO accuracy is very good indeed and can be further refined though I have never found the need for this.
TTS-160 Panther mount with telescope rOTAtor
Rosette Nebula in Hubble Palette
Borg 125SD f/3.9, CentralDS Canon 60D, 7.7 hours
by: Chris Howey
Jellyfish Nebula in Bi-Colour (SII. Ha)
Borg 125SD f/3.9, CentralDS Canon 60D, 5 hours
by: Chris Howey
Eastern Veil in Hubble Palette
Borg 125SD f/3.9, ZWO ASI1600MM cool, 4.5 hours
by: Chris Howey
I should add that the quality of materials and construction is first class – this is certainly no mass production product. Everything packs away into a couple of supplied transport bags.
Check out the TTS website for nice videos of the mount being set up.
Also worth saying that as a visual mount, being an Alt Az the eyepiece is never at some crazy uncomfortable angle.
Chris
Chris Howey, Gloucester, United Kingdom
Website: Astrobin
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