[netwolf]

About 2 years back when i first got into this hobby i was discussing with my friend Apoman, the polar alignment routine. I recall noting to him why when you can have motors for RA and DEC can you do not have motors for the polar alignment Alt(Latitude)/Az(True south) adjustments. I have not seen a single mount that has this feature, but i have seen many mounts that cost enough money to warrant this feature. The answer i got from my mate was why dont i patent the idea and make it so.

The many recent threads on this subject got me thinking again about things like how Tpoint and similar software plus plate solving can indicate errors in polar alignment. But still we don't have any means for the software to act on this information on its own by fine tuning the polar alignment.

Does anyone know if such a mount exists that does have this feature. Is there some good reason for this task to remain manual?


Regards
Fahim