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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
12-22-2018, 01:36 PM
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I have a few suggestions.- I like to do the Milky Way so wide angle is what I use. I found an old heavy Manfrotto 3001 tripod on Craigslist. It came with an old 486RC ballhead that I hated, so I just sold the ballhead and the tripod was free. It did take me a couple of months of looking.
- With a ballhead when you loosen the controls all 3 axis are in play. I again found an old geared head (Manfrotto 410) on Craigslist up in the bay area, bought and shipped it. With the geared head I can adjust just one axis at a time, which makes positioning and pointing much easier. This one took me 6 months of looking to find (for a price I wanted to pay). ---- SearchTempest: Search all of Craigslist nationwide & more is your friend.
Personally, if your interest is deep space objects, the only real way to go is with a motorized tracker. The Pentax Astrotracer offers too short of tracking times at the longer focal distances you are interested in,
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