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A project log for Paper Pikon with 1000mm Focal Length

Pikon Telescope made from poster board

nathan-brownNathan Brown 10/03/2019 at 18:270 Comments

I've run into a problem with my drive design after considering building an equatorial mount.  It sent me down a rabbit hole trying to design.  I was a little over zealous in thinking I could devote that much time to it.  So I am back to a simple Alt-Az mount and my pulley based "gearbox".

I do think it would be awesome if we could design up an open source printable / cnc'able equatorial mounting system.  This is a little bit of a grad undertaking, so I think I'll take this on AFTER I have a totally working telescope.

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