Vixen APZ Mount Telescope Mount
The Vixen APZ Mount is a highly versatile and user-friendly alt-azimuth telescope mount designed to deliver smooth and stable tracking for your astronomical observations. Built with a modular design, it can easily be upgraded or transformed into a highly portable equatorial mount to suit your evolving stargazing needs.
Key Features
- Simple and easy-to-use alt-azimuth design featuring manual friction control for quick targeting and dual-axis slow-motion knobs for precise tracking.
- Robust build with a generous loading capacity of up to 8kg, making it suitable for larger optical tubes such as a 200mm aperture VMC telescope.
- Equipped with six sealed ball bearings in the movable parts to prevent dust ingress and ensure exceptionally smooth rotation.
- Modular construction allows seamless integration with Vixen Advanced Polaris components, offering an easy upgrade path to an equatorial setup.
- Features high-quality aluminium alloy altitude and azimuth axes with durable brass worm shaft gears for long-lasting reliability.
With its lightweight design and included counterweight, this mount provides the perfect balance of portability and rigid stability for astronomers on the move. Whether you are conducting quick terrestrial viewing or detailed celestial tracking, the APZ mount offers an exceptional and reliable observing experience.
A wide selection of accessories and modules are available to upgrade.
The components of the APZ mount are designed as modules for the Advanced Polaris mount and they are usable to transform it to a highly portable AP equatorial mount.
Sealed Ball Bearings
The sealed type ball bearings are used for movable part to eliminate from mixing in of dust particles and offer excellent durability. It ensures smooth rotation of an optical tube loaded.
Decent 8kg Loading Weight
The rigid body and sealed ball bearings allows for using a VMC telescope with 200mm aperture.
| Slow motion control | Worm and wheel gears with 144-tooth whole circle micro movement (by hand), with slow motion control knob |
| Quick motion control | Friction control |
| Worm wheel gears | 58.4mm in diameter, 144-tooth |
| Worm shaft gears | 9.8mm in diameter, made of brass |
| Altitude/Azimuth axes | 59mm in diameter, made of aluminum alloy |
| Number of bearings | 6 pieces |
| Loading weight | About 8kg (6kg if used with the DEC motor module) |
| Size | 178mm x 258mm x 104mm |
| Weight | 3.8kg (incl. AZ counterweight) |
| Counterweight | AZ couterweight 1.65kg |
Brand: Vixen |
Code: VX25841
APN: 4955295258413 |
Supplier Code: 25841
Brand: Vixen |
Code: VX25841
APN: 4955295258413 |
Supplier Code: 25841
At a glance
The Vixen APZ Mount is a highly versatile and user-friendly alt-azimuth telescope mount designed to deliver smooth and stable tracking for your astronomical observations. Built with a modular design, it can easily be upgraded or transformed into a highly portable equatorial mount to suit your evolving stargazing needs.
Key Features
- Simple and easy-to-use alt-azimuth design featuring manual friction control for quick targeting and dual-axis slow-motion knobs for precise tracking.
- Robust build with a generous loading capacity of up to 8kg, making it suitable for larger optical tubes such as a 200mm aperture VMC telescope.
- Equipped with six sealed ball bearings in the movable parts to prevent dust ingress and ensure exceptionally smooth rotation.
- Modular construction allows seamless integration with Vixen Advanced Polaris components, offering an easy upgrade path to an equatorial setup.
- Features high-quality aluminium alloy altitude and azimuth axes with durable brass worm shaft gears for long-lasting reliability.
With its lightweight design and included counterweight, this mount provides the perfect balance of portability and rigid stability for astronomers on the move. Whether you are conducting quick terrestrial viewing or detailed celestial tracking, the APZ mount offers an exceptional and reliable observing experience.
A wide selection of accessories and modules are available to upgrade.The components of the APZ mount are designed as modules for the Advanced Polaris mount and they are usable to transform it to a highly portable AP equatorial mount. |
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Sealed Ball BearingsThe sealed type ball bearings are used for movable part to eliminate from mixing in of dust particles and offer excellent durability. It ensures smooth rotation of an optical tube loaded. |
Decent 8kg Loading WeightThe rigid body and sealed ball bearings allows for using a VMC telescope with 200mm aperture. |
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