Astronomy - USA (2020-04)

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PlaneWave Instruments


L350 DIRECT DRIVE MOUNTS


NOW IN STOCK!


WHY USE L-350?



  • Gearless direct drive motors

  • High resolution axis-encoders

  • High-precision tracking, from sidereal-rate to
    50-degrees/second

  • Mount modeling and control software included

  • Automated motor tuning

  • 100LB Payload Capacity

  • Compatible with many OTAs

  • Equatorial or Alt-Az operation

  • Now in stock!


WHY USE DIRECT DRIVE?



  • No gears

  • No backlash

  • No periodic error

  • Silent operation

  • Years of maintenance-free heavy use

  • Highly responsive

  • Fast target acquisition

  • Technology from PWI Observatory
    Class mounts in a small package


This close-up is from the corner of an unregistered stack of a 9x
minute sequence, using an L350 mount and CDK14 in Alt/Az with
IRF90 de-rotation, unguided. Less than 1% elongation, at less than 0.
arc-seconds/pixel!
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