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Originally Posted by rogerg
If a digital compass or an IPhone can find north/south, why can’t an EQ mount with GPS, current date/time, current lat & long, and other computation, be made to have an integrated azmith adjustment to automatically determine north/south and rotate the azmith of the mount to perfect alignment?
Similarly: If a digital angle gauge/angle meter can find 31 degrees elevation, and an iPhone can tell us if our tripod is perfectly flat or not, why can’t an EQ mount be made to have an integrated altitude adjustment and automatically determine the correct altitude (in conjunction with GPS and current date/time data) and move elevate the mount to the correct azmith?
Is this just a case of cost?
I was surprised when the first GPS telescopes came out, as i thought this was what the “you beaut fantastic GPS!” feature would have given us. But now many years later I’m still surprised there’s no mount on the market that will auto-align its self once plonked down on the ground.
Is it just much harder than I’m thinking it is???
Roger.
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I saw a video of a prototype Toast Delight mini tracker mount with a GPS based polar alignment system.
It simply located itself and formed a circle that you adjusted the mount until a cross hair was in the centre of the circle and you were done.
Greg.
