Calculation of drive arm length.
Double arm barn door tracker.
A double arm mount offers much greater accuracy than conventional designs.
Construction plans for a star tracker.
Original concept by dave trott.
A simple single arm barn door tracker can be made by attaching two pieces of wood together with a hinge.
His paper a mathematical analysis of the double arm barn door drive appears on pages 155 160 of the december 1988 monthly notices of the astronomical society of south africa.
Double arm barn door tracker.
The hinge is aligned with a celestial pole and the boards are then driven apart or together at a constant rate usually by turning a.
To use it the tracker is set up in the field so that the hinges are aligned with the earth s axis of rotation.
A camera is mounted on the top board usually with some sort of ball joint to allow the camera to be pointed in any direction.
Signal frequencies on cmos 4024 pins.
First cut the 500mm length in half and mount the hinge.
The 6x30 mm finder scope is parallel to the hinges so it can be.
Sky telescope april 1989 p436 p441 very good.
For some of my longer exposures i use this device which can track the motion of the stars across the sky while the image is being made.
An inexpensive route to astrophotography has long been the scotch mount also known as the barn door drive after its appearance or the haig mount after its inventor.
How to build a double arm barn door tracker jefferson lab home page science education home page construction notes photos page sources.