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Product Feature
- Item model number: 93514
- Attach this Celestron Motor Drive to any AstroMaster equatorial mount and the telescope will track the stars in right ascension
Product Description
Motor Drive for Celestron AstroMaster or PowerSeeker EQ series telescopes. Allow for automatic tracking of objects on your AstroMaster EQ Mount. No more turning knobs, let the motor drive track objects for you!Without a motor drive the AstroMaster telescope tracks objects in the sky manually. For example, if you had Saturn or Jupiter in your eyepiece, the object would only stay in your field-of-view at high magnifications for a few seconds. To track objects manually, you need to turn the knobs on the EQ mount to keep the object in your view. Each time you turn the knob, the image shake makes viewing the object impossible, making you wait for the telescope to stabilize again.A motor drive eliminates the need for manually tracking objects. Once your object is located, simply turn on the motor drive and adjust the speed to match the objects tracking speed. The motor drive runs for up to 40 hours on one included 9 volt battery.
Product Detail
- Brand: Celestron
- Model: 93514
- Dimensions: 4.00" h x4.00" w x8.00" l,1.00 pounds
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
A small glitch.. then OK
By REC III
The Celestron motor drive is very cool and very, very "small"....
Received it overnight.. as usual.. from Amazon.com
Had already downloaded the insructions from The Celestron website. so I was familar with the unit and the installation instructions....
Proceeded to install the unit... OH MY!!! the RA shaft is TO BIG for the coupling.. a defective unit.. you say.. bad engineering....I was NOT a Happy Camper ...
Called Celsetron "CS" and was greeted with a 20 minute wait.. was finally connected to a fellow.. explained the issue... He said.. I don't know what the problem is as I have a unit right in front of me and the hole is fine.. it should fit the RA shaft with no problem... I mentioned it looked like the hole had a metal sleave which made the diameter to small to fit.. .. Too bad.. He said...send it back.. to us or Amazon..
So.. being a "problem solver" by nature... I removed the coupling from the motor shaft and took a closer look at at the rubber coupling which has two screw holes... one at each end.. I reversed the two screws and it fit.. The screws were assembled in reverse order at the factory... in China..of course.... as they are both the same diameter.. How "nice" for them.
So being a good "Amazon" customer... to help save my fellow customers some grief.. I called back to Celesrton and informed them of my findings.. AND... What do you think they said... OH YES... we are aware of that problem.. Well.. it appears I talked to the guy who did not get the memo.. as the second person was female... who knew all about the issue . good job... young lady.. and she expalined the fix... I called to tell them about..
When you receive your unit.. look at the rubber coulping at one end.. if the large finger screw is on the end with a metal sleave .. it is reversed... remove the coupling from the motor shaft . and reverse the screws.. replacing the small "allan set scew" at the end end with the metal sleave... THEN... the other end of the coupling will fit the RA shaft.. the one with the finger screw as as it has a larger diameter.
This may sound like "greek"..BUT, when you look at the unit you will understand.. and the unit will function as designed..
If the end with the "finger screw" has no metal sleave..you are "good to go"..
I was told a significant number of unts have this flaw.. the luck of the draw...for you
Hold your applause.. please
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great for tracking planets!
By Review It
I bought this piece to track planets with my Powerseeker 127 scope - Yes it fits the Powerseeker as well as the Astromaster. This unit is a lot of fun to play with, it is not very fancy but it does the job at a very reasonable cost. I especially like zooming in on Jupiter and tracking it at higher magnifications! Just be aware that when not tracking planets, this unit can get in the way and is probably best removed when just looking around at galaxies and star clusters. When using the EQ mount, sometimes you need to move your right ascension cable to the opposite side of the mount to accommodate the angle of the scope and the motor will be in the way.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Simple tracking
By Lawrence M. Russo II
If you have a beginners EQ mount and would like to setup and track objects with very little effort this is the answer. I use this on my Celestron Powerseeker EQ 80 and it works ok after some tweaking as long as you are polar aligned this works just fine.
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