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Re: ATM Alt-alt telescope mounts and image rotation - long post
- To: <atm@shore.net>
- Subject: Re: ATM Alt-alt telescope mounts and image rotation - long post
- From: "Tom Krajci" <tkrajci@san.osd.mil>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:14:39 +0500
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <E19LE7L-00003N-00@aquarium.shore.net>
- Organization: SAO Tashkenet, Uzbekistan
- Reply-To: "Tom Krajci" <tkrajci@san.osd.mil>
- Sender: owner-atm@shore.net
>From: "grumpa4" <jdubois@cin.net>
>Or just elevate the Dobsonian mount so that the base is perpendicular
to >the
>north star and your problems are solved. No field rotation and only
one
>motor to drive with good polar alingment. This is a poor man's German
>equitorial.
For a not-large scope...that's true, and easy to implement.
What is the largest, amateur-built, equatorially mounted scope you've
seen or heard of?
What is the largest, amateur-built, alt-az scope you've seen or heard
of?
What is the largest, amateur-built, alt-alt scope that you think can be
made?
What is the largest, amateur-built, 3-axis scope that you think can be
made?
Tom Krajci
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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