Mounts

Sphinx D comes complete with PEC, backlash compensation, and the incredibly accurate SX Polar Finder Scope.The innovative STAR BOOK hand controller offers astronomical navigation with a large full-color LCD screen! The color screen is a detailed star chart that acts as a navigational and GOTO guide for the mount.

While the outsides might look similar to the standard Sphinx Mount, the changes that have happened are huge! Incorporating one piece hardened steel RA and DEC shafts with needle bearings throughout, the new Sphinx D can handle a load capacity up to 50 lbs.

Vixen has reworked the design and manufacture of its innovative SXD Mount. The new SXD2 Mount has a greater loading capacity and is more rigid enabling a more steady platform for astrophotography. The quieter Stepping motors ensure you of smooth, quiet slewing with quick response to commands.

Vixen has reworked the design and manufacture of its innovative SXD Mount. The new SXD2 Mount has a greater loading capacity and is more rigid enabling a more steady platform for astrophotography. The quieter Stepping motors ensure you of smooth, quiet slewing with quick response to commands.

Vixen's Sphinx SXP Equatorial Mount is built upon innovations developed through decades of German Equatorial Mount manufacturing and construction!

The Porsche Of The Astropgotography Mounts, Quite and Precise

Vixen's Sphinx SXP Equatorial Mount is built upon innovations developed through decades of German Equatorial Mount manufacturing and construction!

Vixen's Sphinx SXP Equatorial Mount is built upon innovations developed through decades of German Equatorial Mount manufacturing and construction!

Zoom-In/Out buttons for the color star chart display also control the motor speed. As you zoom in closer to an object on the display screen, the motor speed automatically becomes finer and as you zoom out the motor speed increases to cover larger distances.