31-07-2025, 07:39 AM
Now if the rain would stop.
There have always been add-on mounts for telescopes / binoculars / cameras. The simplest is simply a polar mount and AC mains synchronous motor that cancels the Earth's rotation for longer duration exposures of "fixed" stars.
With Starlink and similar now I'd not want to spend a large amount. Off and on I always fancied the idea of a telescope but felt that a decent one and polar mount or tracking mount would be too expensive.
I have a large X yagi with dual feeds on a rotator. If I upgraded that for computer controlled rotation & elevation I could add a telescope and camera.
I knew someone with a 3.7 mesh dish (entry level RT?) and actuators for tracking even elliptic orbits (packed up not in use), but the only place with space is my shed roof, and 20 years later when he offered it to me I had 3 months earlier covered the roof with 8 solar panels.
There have always been add-on mounts for telescopes / binoculars / cameras. The simplest is simply a polar mount and AC mains synchronous motor that cancels the Earth's rotation for longer duration exposures of "fixed" stars.
With Starlink and similar now I'd not want to spend a large amount. Off and on I always fancied the idea of a telescope but felt that a decent one and polar mount or tracking mount would be too expensive.
I have a large X yagi with dual feeds on a rotator. If I upgraded that for computer controlled rotation & elevation I could add a telescope and camera.
I knew someone with a 3.7 mesh dish (entry level RT?) and actuators for tracking even elliptic orbits (packed up not in use), but the only place with space is my shed roof, and 20 years later when he offered it to me I had 3 months earlier covered the roof with 8 solar panels.
