Mount HEQ-5 SynTrek

Name: Skywatcher Mount HEQ-5 SynTrek
Brand: Skywatcher
Price: 910 USD

~~RRP: $ 970.00~~ Our price:

$ 910.00 incl. VAT, plus shipping costs

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Product description

HEQ-5 SynTrek mount:

The high quality HEQ-5 equatorial mount turns your telescope into a precision instrument for exciting and fascinating astronomical observing. The extensive facilities of the HEQ-5 includes a polar finder scope, which allows you to easily align the telescope in the correct position, aluminium right ascension and declination scales and electric motors on both axes. So you only need to align the equatorial mount on the sky's North Pole before starting observing, and you can then let your telescope track using the motors - also ideal for getting into astrophotography! The mount weighs 7.4 lbs and is much more stable than the less sophisticated EQ-5 mount. The HEQ-5 damps down any induced vibrations much better and much faster.

Features of the mount and its tracking:

speeds 2x, 8X and 16x (sidereal)
tracking modes: sidereal, lunar, solar and sidereal
polar finder

Included in delivery:

HEQ-5 equatorial mount, with motors on both axes
SynTrek hand controller
sturdy tubular steel tripod

suitable counterweights

The heavy-duty Sky-Watcher HEQ-5 and EQ-6 equatorial mounts come in three versions: Classic, SynTrek and SynScan. The classic version is the strandard design with no extras, the other versions are known by the suffix 'SynTrek' or 'Pro SynScan'. While in the classic version uses simple DC motors, high-quality stepper motors are used for the upgraded versions. The SynTrek comes with a simple hand control but the SynScan, however, is supplied with a SynScan hand control box with full computer-controlled GoTo functionality.

The SynTrek version can be connected to a SynScan hand control box, available separately, upgrading it to full SynScan capability.

Our expert comment:

Skywatcher is changing the interface on the newest version of the EQ-6 mount. You can find out here which EQMOD cable you require depending on which version of EQ-6 you have. If your mount has a DB9 interface (also known as a serial port, as found on older computers), these are the suitable EQMOD cables:

https://www.astroshop.eu/datenkabel-adapter/pierro-astro-usb-eq6-direkt-schnittstelle-fuer-skywatcher-eq6-n-eq6-orion-atlas/p,58297

https://www.astroshop.eu/datenkabel-adapter/pegasusastro-eqdir-usb-stick-fuer-skywatcher-montierungen-mit-db9/p,61892

https://www.astroshop.eu/datenkabel-adapter/ertl-elektronics-adapter-eqdir-rs232-fuer-skywatcher-eq6/p,49908

https://www.astroshop.eu/datenkabel-adapter/primalucelab-eqmod-usb-schnittstelle-fuer-skywatcher-eq-6/p,51735

If you purchased your EQ-6 recently and it has the new interface panel (along with an RJ-45 male connector, similar to the EQ-6-R or the AZ-EQ-6), the cables listed below should fit this new version of the EQ-6. However, we are still gathering information to confirm this (updated end of October 2022):

https://www.astroshop.eu/datenkabel-adapter/pierro-astro-usb-heq5-direkt-schnittstelle-fuer-skywatcher-heq5-eq8-az-eq6-az-eq5-eq6-r/p,48677

https://www.astroshop.eu/datenkabel-adapter/ertl-elektronics-adapter-eqdir-usb-fuer-skywatcher-eq-3-5-8-heq5-azeq6-eq6-r/p,49806

https://www.astroshop.eu/datenkabel-adapter/pegasusastro-eqdir-usb-stick-fuer-skywatcher-montierungen-mit-rj45/p,61889

If your mount already has a USB interface on the panel, you do not need an additional cable. Simply identify the COM port using the device manager and set the baud rate to 115200. If you are in doubt, send us a picture of your mount's interface panel by email.