Name: iOptron SmartEQ Pro Portable German Equatorial GOTO Mount
Brand: iOptron
SKU: ATSMARTEQP
Price: 499.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)

iOptron SmartEQ Pro Portable German Equatorial GOTO Mount

iOptron

Adorama

iOptron SmartEQ Pro Portable German Equa...

Buy: iOptron SmartEQ Pro Portable German Equatorial GOTO Mount Mount Type: Computerized Telescope Mounts

The iOptron SmartEQ Pro Portable German Equatorial GOTO Mount is a fully computerized mount with a database of 59,000 objects. It offers the next generation GOTO technology from iOptron. The Go2Nova Hand Controller is intuitive with a large LCD screen, with which you can easily set up your telescope and select where you want to navigate. The SmartEQ Pro is universally compatible with any tubes using a Vixen-style dovetail connection, making it useful for beginners as well as hobbyists with multiple tubes.

This is my first EQ Mount and I got it for my camera. Unfortunately, I cant get it work, and have searched in vain online for video, but cant find anything to address the problems I am having with it. And customer service at Adoroma wont do anything at all to help me, they just told me I need to contact IOptron and if they cant herlp me to return it before the deadline to get my money back. Thats all they said and were willing to do to help me! After getting mine, I have come across many people online that have encountered issues with this mount also, having to send it to IOptron more than once to get it updated, repaired, replaced, etc. Had I known about these issues, I wouldnt have purchased it. It is also very loud when moving, which I wasnt expecting. Super disappointing, was very excited to get it and use it and havent been able to get the scope to work, to get it aligned, or track properly. You get minimal directions with it, have to go online to get the manual, but even downloading the manual, it is not easy to follow because their arent enough photos illustrating what they are talking about! They assume you know how to polar align as an example, which is very frustrating. Their are no photos of how to do that using the scope (my scope wont work even work though.)