Re: Upgrading Dobsonian to Equatorial

On 27 Mar 2007 14:13:55 -0700, "M104galaxy@xxxxxxxxx"
<M104galaxy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wrong. An Ozypowski or similar platform will track a large sling dob
for an hour or so with no field rotation. Some outstanding DSLR work
is currently being done with this equipment.

That's one of the solutions I suggested. You can get away with this with
a sling because the mirror orientation itself remains largely altaz. But
you can't use a sling mounted mirror on a full equatorial mount.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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