Hi everybody,
Don't forget that this is a low cost project.
If I could find a not too costly AzAlt mount it would be fine, but what I have seen they are all very expensive. If the software can't setup the mount as an EQ mount it could be setup as it is placed at north pole. The atmosphere diffraction will then not be correct calculated and for very close objects it will be a pointing error.
If I can't find any cheap mount I have too keep my EQ6 and with a special arm I think it would work fine.
The future plan is to not have a counter balance weight, or more precisely, the counter balance will be another telescope. That's another reason to have this no flip construction (or no hit mount).
You can see at my drawings what I mean:
http://astrofriend.eu/astronomy/proj...ip.html#part06
My observatorie's walls will block the lower altitude objects more at the lower telescope. If it's important to take photos of a lower altitude object then in that special case I will have the most important telescope on the upper side. But normally I don't think I need to flip the telescopes and then no extra problem with guiding or up side down oriention of main camera.
I'm not sure how to set this up in future, maybe one wide field and one narrow field telescope. Or maybe two identical telescopes, but with one rgb sensor on one telescope and one mono chromatic sensor on the other telescope.
Two telescopes doesn't load the mount more then one telescope with counter balance weights. But it will be more sensitive to winds.
I will say that I'm not sure if I will built this special mount arm, but it's interesting to investigate and do some drawings.
/Lars