Vixen Portable EQ Mount
The Vixen Portable EQ Mount is a highly precise polar axis fine adjustment platform designed to sit between your tripod and starry sky tracking platform. It allows for meticulous vertical and horizontal adjustments, making it an essential accessory for accurate polar alignment with tracking systems like the Polarie U.
Key Features
- Precise Fine Adjustment: Features a double screw type mechanism for both altitude and azimuth, offering secure fixing and fine adjustments of up to plus or minus 7.5 degrees.
- Versatile Range: Offers a wide setting range with a stepless 360-degree azimuth and an altitude range of minus 35 to 90 degrees.
- Quick Release Holder: Equipped with a quick release plate holder compatible with the Polarie U, standard Polarie, and single-lens camera bodies.
- Universal Tripod Compatibility: Supports standard quarter-inch and three-eighths-inch camera tripods, as well as specialised Vixen astronomical telescope tripods.
- High Load Capacity: Robustly designed to support a recommended payload of up to 8 kilograms while remaining compact and portable.
With its robust construction and exceptional fine-tuning capabilities, this mount ensures your astrophotography setup remains stable and perfectly aligned. It is the ideal companion for enthusiast astronomers looking to elevate their tracking accuracy.
Equipped with quick release plate holder (plate receiving part)
Plate holder compatible with thin attachment plate standard. Uses a quick release structure that sandwiches the mounting plate from the side. With a strong fixing force, one screw can be attached and removed with one touch. Compatible with the Starry Sky Platform Polarie U equipped with a compatible pedestal, as well as the Starry Sky Platform Polarie, AP Starry Sky Platform, single-lens camera body (commercially available product), etc. in combination with the included quick release angle plate (thin size) To do.
Compatible with plate holder SX (sold separately)
Astronomical general standard screws with M8 screws arranged at 35 mm intervals. By installing the plate holder SX (sold separately), you can also mount the astronomical telescope lens barrel such as FL55SS.
Compatible with a variety of tripods such as 1/4 inch, 3/8 inch and tripods for astronomical telescopes
Equipped with a removable tripod adapter on the bottom.The tripod adapter is equipped with a 3/8 inch screw, and it also supports the 1/4 inch standard by using the conversion adapter together. Can be widely installed on camera tripods sold separately or on the market. Also, by replacing the camera tripod adapter plate (installed in the main body) with the attached astronomical telescope tripod adapter, it can also be mounted on our astronomical telescope tripod such as APP-TL130. Compatible with APP-TL30, ASG-CB90, SXG-HAL130, SXG-P85DX, SXG half pillars.
Wide setting range: altitude -35 to 90°, azimuth 360° (stepless)
The platform surface can be freely moved at an altitude of 0° to 90° and azimuth of 360° by loosening the clamp, and it can be used in a wide range of areas and situations. Fine adjustment allows fine adjustment up to ±7.5°. Movable over 90° up to about 35° (-35°) on the other side
Double screw type fine adjustment screw that can be securely fixed
The altitude fine movement and the direction fine movement have adopted the double screw type which operates by loosening one screw and tightening the other. Since it is sandwiched with screws from both sides, it is possible to achieve both fine movement and strong fixing. If you like, you can use the included hex wrench to tighten the screws.
| Altitude angle range | 0 to 90° (-35 to 90°) Coarse movement range Approx. 110° Fine movement range ±7.5° |
| Azimuth range | 0 to 360° Coarse movement range 360° Fine movement range ±7.5° |
| Altitude tremor | Double screw type, fine movement screw specification, 1 rotation about 2° |
| Azimuth | Double screw type, fine movement screw specification, 1 rotation about 2° |
| Available weight (recommended) | About 8 kg |
| Compatible models | Starry Sky Platform Polarie U, Starry Sky Platform Polarie, AP Starry Sky Platform, single-lens camera body (commercially available product), thin attachment plate standard compatible |
| Mountable tripod etc. | Camera tripod (1/4 inch, 3/8 inch screw), APP-TL30, ASG-CB90, SXG-HAL130, SXG-P85DX, SXG half pillar |
| size | 59 x 126 x 59 mm (excluding protrusions) |
| weight | 795g |
Brand: Vixen |
Code: VX35492
APN: 4955295354924 |
Supplier Code: 35492
Brand: Vixen |
Code: VX35492
APN: 4955295354924 |
Supplier Code: 35492
At a glance
The Vixen Portable EQ Mount is a highly precise polar axis fine adjustment platform designed to sit between your tripod and starry sky tracking platform. It allows for meticulous vertical and horizontal adjustments, making it an essential accessory for accurate polar alignment with tracking systems like the Polarie U.
Key Features
- Precise Fine Adjustment: Features a double screw type mechanism for both altitude and azimuth, offering secure fixing and fine adjustments of up to plus or minus 7.5 degrees.
- Versatile Range: Offers a wide setting range with a stepless 360-degree azimuth and an altitude range of minus 35 to 90 degrees.
- Quick Release Holder: Equipped with a quick release plate holder compatible with the Polarie U, standard Polarie, and single-lens camera bodies.
- Universal Tripod Compatibility: Supports standard quarter-inch and three-eighths-inch camera tripods, as well as specialised Vixen astronomical telescope tripods.
- High Load Capacity: Robustly designed to support a recommended payload of up to 8 kilograms while remaining compact and portable.
With its robust construction and exceptional fine-tuning capabilities, this mount ensures your astrophotography setup remains stable and perfectly aligned. It is the ideal companion for enthusiast astronomers looking to elevate their tracking accuracy.
Equipped with quick release plate holder (plate receiving part)Plate holder compatible with thin attachment plate standard. Uses a quick release structure that sandwiches the mounting plate from the side. With a strong fixing force, one screw can be attached and removed with one touch. Compatible with the Starry Sky Platform Polarie U equipped with a compatible pedestal, as well as the Starry Sky Platform Polarie, AP Starry Sky Platform, single-lens camera body (commercially available product), etc. in combination with the included quick release angle plate (thin size) To do. |
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Compatible with plate holder SX (sold separately)Astronomical general standard screws with M8 screws arranged at 35 mm intervals. By installing the plate holder SX (sold separately), you can also mount the astronomical telescope lens barrel such as FL55SS. |
Compatible with a variety of tripods such as 1/4 inch, 3/8 inch and tripods for astronomical telescopesEquipped with a removable tripod adapter on the bottom.The tripod adapter is equipped with a 3/8 inch screw, and it also supports the 1/4 inch standard by using the conversion adapter together. Can be widely installed on camera tripods sold separately or on the market. Also, by replacing the camera tripod adapter plate (installed in the main body) with the attached astronomical telescope tripod adapter, it can also be mounted on our astronomical telescope tripod such as APP-TL130. Compatible with APP-TL30, ASG-CB90, SXG-HAL130, SXG-P85DX, SXG half pillars. |
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Wide setting range: altitude -35 to 90°, azimuth 360° (stepless)The platform surface can be freely moved at an altitude of 0° to 90° and azimuth of 360° by loosening the clamp, and it can be used in a wide range of areas and situations. Fine adjustment allows fine adjustment up to ±7.5°. Movable over 90° up to about 35° (-35°) on the other side |
Double screw type fine adjustment screw that can be securely fixedThe altitude fine movement and the direction fine movement have adopted the double screw type which operates by loosening one screw and tightening the other. Since it is sandwiched with screws from both sides, it is possible to achieve both fine movement and strong fixing. If you like, you can use the included hex wrench to tighten the screws. |
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