Moving my Askar FRA400 Imaging Platform over to the New ZWO AM5 Mount! (Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove))

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Moving my Askar FRA400 Imaging Platform over to the New ZWO AM5 Mount!

Link: https://cosgrovescosmos.com/astrogear/fpa400-ver2

Moving my Askar FRA400 Imaging Platform over to the New ZWO AM5 Mount!

Link: https://cosgrovescosmos.com/astrogear/fpa400-ver2

Happy New Year, Everone!

On this very last day of 2022, I published a new article on my website that covers the recent update I made on my Askar FRA400 Imaging Platform - where I have moved to the new ZWO AM5 Harmonic mount!

This mount uses an entirely new technology to drive the telescope! Where most equatorial telescopes are driven by a classical worm gear arrangement, the AM5 uses Harmonic or Stain Wave Gear Technology for their mount.

This is a new mount on the market, but not the only one using Strain Wave Tech - you can expect to see more in the near future.

Strain Wave Technology is currently used extensively in Robotics and the Aerospace industry and is just coming to telescope mounts now!

This article covers why I moved from my previous mount, explores the Strain Wave Drive technology that the AM5 uses, and covers my experience moving to this new technology.

The full post can be seen here:
https://cosgrovescosmos.com/astrogear/fpa400-ver2

A companion video discussing this topic can be seen on my YouTube Channel here:
https://youtu.be/Cerd-BcaMW4
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Please accept my wishes for a healthy, happy, and fruitful 2023!
Pat

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