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.
Type 4 double arm barn door.
It is sometimes called the haig or scotch mount.
Signal frequencies on cmos 4024 pins.
The original single arm barn door has been around for many years and was i believe first popularized by a fellow named haig back in the 1970 s.
Jun 29 2018 double arm type 4 barn door drive for astrophotography.
Type 4 double arm barn door drives allow for better tracking than single arm drives even in manual mode reducing star trailing and allowing for very long exposures even with long lenses.
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A double arm mount offers much greater accuracy than conventional designs.
Calculation of drive arm length.
Double barn doors also known as bi parting doors can function as traditional interior sliding doors pocket doors bypass sliding doors bi fold doors and more.
This simple mount is easy for nearly anyone to make inexpensive and very effective for taki.
Trailing error is in the order of 4 arc seconds or better for 50 minute exposures depending on adequate polar alignment pa.
For a type 2 and type 3 drive b is measured from the drive arm hinge point to the sliding contact point.
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Bi parting 294 bypass 45.
This video is a demonstration of the double arm barn door drive.
C the distance between the drive arm hinge and the camera platform hinge measured along the base board.
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