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Sphinx-D Mount

 

While the outsides might look similar to the standard Sphinx Mount, the changes that have happened under the hood are huge! Incorporating one piece hardened steel RA and DEC shafts with needle bearings throughout, the new Sphinx D can handle a load capacity up to 50 lbs. The Sphinx D comes complete with PEC and the incredibly accurate SX Polar Finder Scope.

Astronomers with larger optical tubes and all level of astrophotographers are sure to feel right at home with the intuitive controls that so many have become accustomed to with the standard Sphinx Mount. Its 4.7" Color LCD Display gives an exact position against its scrolling star chart, any object is a point and look away!

The innovative STAR BOOK hand controller offers astronomical navigation with a large full-color LCD screen! The color screen is a detailed star chart that acts as a navigational and GOTO guide for the mount. Zoom-In/Out buttons for the color star chart display also control the motor speed. As you zoom in closer to an object on the display screen, the motor speed automatically becomes finer and as you zoom out the motor speed increases to cover larger distances.

  Vixen Sphinx SXD Mount and ED115
Starbook S

Vixen Starbook

Features and menu options are displayed on the large color screen and are easily navigated with simple buttons on the controller. The STAR BOOK is amazingly easy to use and makes the SPHINX D accessible to a wide range of ages and experience levels.

Sphinx SXD Mount with ED115SWT
Nebula
Rho Ophiuchi with a Sphinx D Mount, an SBIG STL-11KC2 fitted with an Optec HaLRGB filterset, through a Pentax SDHF-75, at Meeline Station, Mount Magnet, Western Australia compliments of Marco Lorenzi
 
Sphinx SXD Mount Features:

Solid Steel RA and DEX Axis shafts

Needle Bearings

180 Tooth Brass Worm Gear in both axes

Interactive Starbook with a 4.7" Color LCD Display - scrolls and zoom into detailed star charts with a built in speaker

Mount Capacity 50 lbs.

Includes one 4.2 lb and one 8.2 lb counterweight

Weight: 8.8 kg/ 19.4 lbs
Full Go-To capabilities to over 22,000 objects
Universal GP Plate receiver allows many telescopes to mount
Completely upgradeable firmware and comet database

Sphinx SXD Mount with Tripod - (Item #2503Hal130)
$2899.00 before $200 Mail-in-Rebate