Similar to image: comes without tripod and telescope
The M Zero Mount continues Avalon’s tradition of providing the most up-to-date designs and highest levels of performance for mobile observations and astrophotography!
The anodised aluminium and stainless steel mount’slow weight and high stability make it the perfect companion for both mobile observers and ambitious astrophotographers alike. Its extreme versatility and compact size, alongside its unique Avalon design, result in an unrivalled combination.
The M Zero unites four concepts in one: An equatorial mount, a photographic mount which does not require meridian flipping, an altazimuth mount for visual observing and a time-lapse platform for panoramic images. It is light and compact enough to fit in hand luggage!
The advantages of the toothed belt drive: Due to its design, a toothed belt drive has no backlash. When worm gears are used, the moving parts only touch at one contact point. This causes the lever forces and tensions in the mount drive to result in small, non-linear inaccuracies in the drive. In addition, manufacturing tolerances can cause irregular rotational errors in the worm and worm wheel. None of this is an issue with a toothed belt drive!
This technology is used with great success in industrial mechanical applications, as it enables perfect power transmission without backlash and is virtually silent. The drive forces are transmitted linearly, resulting in very high precision.
StarGo control: Only electronic and hardware components produced in Europe are used for the StarGo control developed by Avalon for LINEAR, M-UNO and M-ZERO mounts. High-precision motors allow speeds from 0.05x to 1000x. The StarGo interface on the mount has many useful connections: In addition to the classic ST4 guiding port, the control has three auxiliary ports for various instruments, a port for connecting a DSLR camera, a USB port and a connection for Baader Steeldrive motor focusers.
The scope of delivery includes a classic hand controller to control the essential functions on the mount. A USB stick is also included, containing the English-language manual and the necessary programs to control the mount via PC and Android device.
Avalon is leading the way into the future: instead of developing an expensive handcontroller with a display, the mounts can be controlled via the much more powerful PCs, tablets and smartphones found in almost every household. An app is used to make the necessary settings on the mount. The StarGo control uses a Bluetooth connection to an Android device (currently not compatible with Apple). Once the mount has been set up, you can easily use one of the many planetarium apps, such as Skysafari, which is much more intuitive and easier to use than the two-line display of a conventional hand controller.
The completely new StarGo GoTo control offers several unique features. In combination with Fast Reverse technology (toothed belt drive without gear play) and first-class workmanship, it enables top performance: there are practically no limits to long-exposure shots with autoguiding, even with telescopes with a focal length of up to two metres (8" Schmidt-Cassegrain and EdgeHD).
Avalon has designed the StarGo control to meet the needs of beginners and professional users alike. In parallactic mode, the M-Zero mount does not need to swing around in the meridian due to its design. This saves time, protects against problems caused by image rotation and offset, and also allows the use of longer refractors, taking into account the maximum weight on the main instrument side. It can also be quickly converted for azimuth operation. It can then either carry long telescopes or binoculars and double telescopes, or it can be used as a stable base for time-lapse sequences.
The M-Zero mount is available with or without tripod:
