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Old 18-03-2017, 10:42 PM
noswonky (Peter)
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That looks very nice. I made something like this to hold an iPad on my 12 inch Skywatcher - but only made of wood.

On a side note - How old are your Skywatcher scopes and what's the tracking like?

I ask because mine is a very early model which I bought in 2010 when the goto dobs first came out. The tracking has always been a bit jerky in the azimuth axis. An object in the eyepiece will drift for a few seconds and then the scope will jump suddenly to correct it, and then it drifts again and corrects again. It's not really a problem for visual observing, but it can be annoying when using a video camera. So I was wondering if the tracking is smoother on later models.
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