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Old 25-04-2008, 04:37 PM
Ian Robinson
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A barn door tracker - astrophotography on the cheap.

OK , you don't have a GEM or Fork which is RA driven , but you still want to try your hand at astrophotography and you've done the star trails thing ....

Not everyone has the readies to buy a nice GEM , so what are the options :

1) build your own GEM or fork and get hold of a secondhand RA wormwheel set and a motor to drive it (hard to find useful secondhand RA drive systems)

2) build a barn door tracker , might be easier to get parts.

Here's how to do it : http://www.astronomyboy.com/barndoor/
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