Vixen Polarie U Star Tracker
Oct 21, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: CHRIS GRIMMER
Vixen was among the first manufacturers to launch a lightweight star tracker into the market with its Vixen Polarie. With a vast array of such trackers now available, we took their latest offering, the Vixen Polarie U for some dark-sky testing. It is sold as a standalone unit that does not include an equatorial mount or a dedicated polar scope, which are optional extras. For this review we were loaned both additional items.
When we unboxed the Polarie we found a very compact and reasonably light mount, in fact 20 per cent lighter than Vixen’s previous model. The housing of the Polarie U is plastic, but it feels very rigid and robust and doesn’t flex when pressed. On the underside
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