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Hi Stargazzers, After my Equatorial table, I'm pleased to show you a very cheap and easy to build fully wireless DSC... As my DSC is wireless, each axis is independant of the other, You do not have to manage the messy wires when rotating your telescope (especially the Azimuth axis is then fully free to rotate in any direction and can even make several turns if you like) ! Each axis (Az, Alt) includes an AS5600 magnetic rotation Hall effect sensor, an ESP32 and a battery power supply (a powerbank directly plugged into the micro USB socket of the ESP32)). That's all, no fancy things but a KISS (Keep It Smart and Simple) pushto system that anybody can reproduce. There is no PCB as the ESP32 is plugged in mezzanine over the sensor. It works in BlueTooth and it is compatible with Skysafari "basic protocol". All explanations here on thingiverse: https://www.thingive...m/thing:6493369 it can be seen here on YT : https://www.youtube....Xd7NDvk3_U&t=0s

first astrophoto results are promizing. 10 pictures of 30sec stacked....

Thanks! Sure, the design is described here on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6362263 You'll just need to install OpenSCAD (freeware) to render your VNS.

here are my first pics and video taken with the old SkyWatcher 200x1000 mounted on the 3D printed equatorial table... Stability of this table is quite good. I must improve my skills for a better focusing on Jupiter ☺️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6fJBA_TYC4

Hi All, I'm fully new to astronomy and to this forum so forgive me if I don't use right vocabulary. Anyway I learnt a lot here so I want to thank you and share with you my design for a 3D printed equatorial table on which I installed a vintage Newton telescope (Sky-Watcher 200x1000). Originality of this design is that I made it fully parametric so that the Vertical Curved North Segments can be compiled and generated according to the characteristics of your telescope (size,mass, latitude). As I'm located in South of France I could only test it at around 45° of latitude, but I think it would give good results in a range of 30-55° ... I was afraid of the rolling surface of a 3D printed part on top of a ball bearing so I decided to add a metallic rail on top the VNS to get a metal on metal motion. I get with this really smooth and friction less motion. You can see that the motion is done by a worm screw pulling a carriage and a connecting rod. Obviously all this is not linear, compensation is done by the firmware inside the ESP32 micontroller coding the adhoc equations... It is still a prototype and I could not really make observations with it as the weather is not optimal ! All I can say it that it works perfectly and keeps stars (nearly) fully centered during 1 hour, which is good enough for my needs and visual observations. I don't know if it will be good for Astro Photo but I'm not equiped for this yet... ? You can see it running here on youtube: All the design is described here on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6362263 Please feel free to comment !