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ATM Amateur English yoke mounts?




Have any of you ever made or used a motor driven (on both axis) English 
yoke mount for your home built telescope?  If so, do you have any web 
pointers to pictures and/or construction details?

Please don't flame me RE the non portability, the inability to see the 
north polar region, and the fact that it would be considered a laughing 
stock item by many who consider it outdated by several far more complex 
and potentially more costly designs.  I'm well aware of the 
shortcomings, but for a permanent backyard installation, it looks like 
it would make for perhaps the most easy and stable equatorial 
arrangement to construct.  Being exclusively a Dob user, and therefore 
not having to polar allign, I can't honestly recall spending too much 
time looking directly poleward in the past 20 years anyway.

Lawrence Sayre

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his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

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