S&T Test Report by Alan Dyer A Low-Tech Sky Tracker The Omegon Mini Track is a low-cost and lightweight tracker with a purely mechanical, spring-driven drive. It mounts to any solid tripod for tracked widefield images of the night sky. The new Omegon Mini Track LX2 provides no-frills sky tracking for wide-field astrophotos, no batteries required! lot of entries in the last few years is the low-cost sky-tracker. These motorized mini-mounts allow for tracked images of the Milky Way and large deep-sky targets through camera lenses with a minimum of cost and fuss to set up. I have several and love them. But as might well have happened to you, I've found myself at a dark site only to find the tracker fail just when I needed it most. Its batteries were dead on arrival or died in the night. Did I have a spare set? Of course not! Here's an answer: The Omegon Mini Track LX2, a tracking head that doesn't require batteries. Its rotation is driven by a clockwork mechanism, which is in fact a repackaged kitchen timer. You just wind up the LX2, frame your subject, and it ticks away and tracks! Mini Track LX2 U.S. Price: $129 ($159 with ball head) omegon.eu What We Like Low-tech reliability Lightweight and inexpensive Refreshingly analog! What We Don't Like Rough tracking accuracy and polar alignment Less accurate with telephoto lenses Limited nightscape capability 60 M AY 2 0 1 9 * S K Y & T E L E S C O P E A. B. A LL PHOTOS BY THE AU THOR A CLASS OF PRODUCT that has seen ahttp://www.omegon.eu