Taurus 500/600/700 Direct Drive

Paramount Taurus™ 500/600/700 — Equatorial Direct-Drives

Here is a sample video of a Paramount tracking a satellite:

The best time to image objects is when they’re at their highest in the sky crossing the meridian. Of course, that’s also when meridian flips can be required with traditional German equatorial mounts.

Meridian flips require you to stop imaging for a few minutes to reacquire your object, check your camera’s focus, and compensate for any detected flexure. Autoguided long-exposure imaging heightens the need to plan around meridian flips.

With a Paramount Taurus™ equatorial fork mount, you’ll never need to perform another meridian flip. Its dual-tined fork provides exceptional stability for your instruments.

And, if you enjoy visual observing, you’ll appreciate the far easier access to your eyepiece.

One of the most important enabling technologies allowing Taurus to move its instrument-payload into exactly the right position is its control software.

Its control-software incorporates TPoint™ and ProTrack™ to produce extraordinarily accurate pointing and tracking. That’s a powerful blend of technologies. Indeed, many of the world’s largest optical, infrared, and radio observatories rely on a version of this software combination.  Nothing else comes close.

Taurus is also equipped with TheSky™ Imaging edition, application software that controls your telescope and all your imaging devices. It even arrives with software to control your dome — all nicely integrated and sporting a consistent look and feel. Its included license allows you to install the software on up to six separate computers.

You can also select among macOS, Windows, and the exceptionally stable Linux. Why paint yourself into a corner?

To help assure excellent mechanical performance, the Paramount Taurus is manufactured using high-grade metals that are precision-machined to our uncommonly high tolerances.

To learn more about the Paramount Taurus, please see the Specifications tab below.

* Optional Scope Rails sold separately