Once I'm out of the huge financial hole I'm in, my next major telescope purchase will likely be a decent EQ platform for the 16-inch. The DSC's are cake to use; on my scope the setup time is 2 or 3 minutes max. Rich --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
Were I to come up with a user-friendly high-tech system, it might look like this: f/5 to f/7 Dob with "flying align"-type drivers, like the DobDriver2000. Digital setting circles. Maybe a database, if I could define it. For imaging I'd use a field de-rotator. OR, same Dob on an equatorial platform. No de-rotator needed, but declination only lines-up with altitude motion near the meridian. You'd have to polar-align the platform, but that could be done with a Telrad-type sight in about ten seconds. No need to align with the DobDriver. The digital circles do require initialization on 2 or 3 stars. Too much work?
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