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to start with, yes in alt/az. the maths looks fine to convert the spherical co-ordinates systems between long / lat, RA / DEC, ALT/ AZ. Being software driven, as long as the motor can be precise and smooth enough, then i can't see a problem of adapting to any platform. basic dob mount or EQ dob mount. Just tell the software what you have and it can track in RA and drive the DEC etc or drive in ALT / AZ.
Point it at a star or two or three, to calibrate and then off you go
As an extra , i want to add field rotation, so that the system knows where it is and then it slowly slowly adjusts for field rotation.
I could just as well be speaking out my @@@, but I believe it should be able to be done.
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