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barndoor tracker finished


todd8137

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Barn door tracker

HI all thanks for take in a look,

well i started with idea to make one for ages but had not a pice that a needed to make it ,to the shed i went . i looked in a few boxes to find what may or may not work,finding a piece of old hoover pipe was the first thing i thought theirs the mount for the camera and so on,till i found everything apart from the bolt which i got from a diy place,i set to work

job done i set it up tested it ,reset it up tested tracked a few shots lens got dew on it so i came in the house left the camera in a plastic bag in the shed went out 20 mins later low thin cloud ect, i aimed the camera for for Lyra in the bottom right corner and took a 2 min sub as a massive cloud was drifting across here a short video of the mount and some of the pics i took

this is truly a back yard build,i stick one of the pics and the video,

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http://www.youtube.com/user/todd8137?feature=mhee

update 23 nov

well things are not go in smooth,some times it works perfect,but most of the times it does not work at all i think the bodge job is no good a new model is in the pipeline as this one is ok but does not work all the time i some times do not see the benifits of it ,but i will struggle on as any one else had problems with barndoor trackers

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Hi Pat, good to see you got it done and it works :hello2: its amazing what can be done when needs must, the pikes look good considering the conditions. lots of clouds here at the moment so no more pictures of Jupiter as yet. cheers Paul

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as ya no paul its not finished yet its not a working model hahahahah was looking for you on skype last week.had a mate round last night with a tracking dob a 200p ,i was show in clive all the gubb in and ins and outs of do in pics and play with all the soft ware

he got a great pic of m42 he took 100, 2.5 secs subs staked them and its looks great it was clear as a bell when he came up 1 hour later cloud cheers

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