Re: Equatorial tracking and dobsonians

Mel Bartels (mbartels@efn.org)
Tue, 25 Apr 95 15:11:10 PDT

>The main problem of using Alt/az stepper motors is field rotation...

Usually one can get away with several minutes of exposure with a ST6 because field rotation does not exceed a pixel dimension at the corners of the chip over this length of time. Close to the zenith times are shorter.

Check out http://www.efn.org/~mbartels/altaz.html for a couple of images taken unguided with a ST6 + 20" f/4.8 computerized altaz.

Mel Bartels