If you are looking for a very affordable mount to start your astrophotography hobby, look no further. Over the years, the mount has developed some backlash in the gears, which can be fixed by yourself or by experts. I recommend not putting over 5 kg or 12 lbs on the AVX when using it for astrophotography. As it is a beginner telescope mount, it is limited in terms of payload capacity. The main advantages – besides the affordable price – are that the mount is very portable, the big altitude-azimuth knobs are very user friendly, the mount is easy to setup and polar align, and you can connect your mount to either the handcontroller – with over 42,000 objects in its database – or your PC or laptop. Over the past five years, my AVX never failed to connect, and with the autoguiding and PEC option, the mount can guide accurate enough to capture some beautiful, sharp, multi-minute images of various deepsky objects (see my photogallery). In my opinion, the Celestron AVX mount is a very good, affordable mount to start your astrophotography adventure as a beginning astrophotographer. I have been using this mount for visual observations as well as planetary and deepsky astrophotography, using different telescopes and cameras.
I’m excited to share this review with you and discuss the mount I’ve been using for over five years, the Celestron advanced VX equatorial mount, or AVX in short.
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