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Old 10-02-2013, 11:10 PM
toc (Tim)
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Webcam as a kind of Telrad?

This afternoon I had a thought. One of my least pleasurable aspects of Astronomy is bending myself in all sorts of positions to centre stars in my telescope for alignment. I was thinking that I could mount a webcam with a widefield view to act as a sort of telrad replacement. That way I could sit my butt on a chair looking at a laptop screen, rather than get sore knees and a bad back

Has anyone done this? Thoughts?

Edit: I was even thinking of mounting the webcam at the rear of my Telrad...

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