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Old 04-09-2019, 08:53 AM
Wavytone
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Not quite, Jeremy, but probably not far off. One night some months back, a group of guys had a Celestron gadget which involved a camera taking images and software trying to figure out what part of the sky it was looking at, and automatically calibrating the mount. It seemed a bit flakey but eventually it did succeed, though it took so long that I had manually set up my AZEQ6 long before it had finished. The constant coffee-grinder noises it made became rapidly annoying as well.

But such a mount wont be cheap. The mount will need precision encoders, sensors to determine whether its level, GPS to determine location, date and time, and an electronic compass for north, plus a camera to find reference stars, and the software to make it all work.

The question is whether people like you want to pay for that on a small mount only suitable for small scopes, vs spending same for a bigger mount without the bells and whistles to take a much larger scope. In my case I'd opt for the latter.

Last edited by Wavytone; 04-09-2019 at 09:06 AM.
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