[SJAAboard] Tom Frayne's 2 telescopes

[leebizz at aol.com]

Hi again,

???? I need to add one item onto the list from Tom Frayne.



31.? Atlas of the Heavens???? I believe this is also known as Skalnate Pleso.

?????????????? Lee


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Hawley <robhawley at earthlink.net>
To: 'Business list for SJAA board of directors' <sjaaboard at sjaa.net>
Sent: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 1:31 pm
Subject: Re: [SJAAboard] Tom Frayne's 2 telescopes




>I'm guessing not many SCTs have DSCs.  It is likely that most of the
>SCTs we will run into will have GOTO or they will be the older manual
>only models.

The fork mounted SCT needs to have two axis motors to handle the tracking.
The motors are pretty much a requirement. It is a small step from there to
GOTO. Every one that I know of has a DSC built in also. 

An SCT mounted on a GEM or on the wedge thingy can get by with just an RA
motor.  In the former case you could run it completely manual (which would
be fine with me).

My issue is that I do not want to fight the motor.  In most scopes if you
install a motor you give up manual control on that axis. If you are required
to use the motor then it would make the scope more useable if it helped you
by having a fast two directional slew.

Rob Hawley 





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