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A_Shocker /r/AskAstrophotography
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1970-01-19 08:11:37.372 +0000 UTC

Things that stand out to me: Amazon's Choice Tripod. I literally said: NO.

Sorry, but no. Unless I've massively missed it, if you want a photo tripod which will support any sort of EQ head, including the Skyguider, it will be in the $100+ neighborhood. I have a tripod which last I checked was still $150+, and it's too light.

This is something that most people don't seem to consider. Even an EQ-1 (Orion's tabletop version aside) tends to come with a much sturdier tripod. You'll hear people in AP talking about the mount being the important thing... It is arguably the single most important thing.

So with that in mind, if you can handle DIY, I have a suggestion for a FAR more capable, goto mount, with Wifi, phone or computer controllable, can be autoguided, can compensate for misalignment, and some other nifty things. Should you expand, you can fit up to an 8" telescope (barely) on it. It can with about $10 more do PEC.

So for those: $405-460

Compare that price to the $300+$60 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074NXGHQN/ ... Which includes a tripod, which looks identical sans branding to one I own, and yeah, that tripod, while fine for stationary photos, yikes on AP, IMO.)

Only other options in that price range are used (You can sometimes find used EQ-5 class mounts as both of mine are, a SVP and a EXOS-2, there's also the CG-5 & AVX )

Looking at the other responses, unless it has a connection mode I'm not aware of at all: You can't use an autoguider with the skyguider. Even if you could, it's single axis only, so any misalignment can't be corrected at all.