Home click or something

[dragonlord]

Why don't eq mounts have a home click or something like that to indicate when each axis is passing through 0degrees?

[andyboy1970]

For what purpose?

[ronin]

Guess that the small click would cause a vibration and upset imaging to even a minor extent.

Any click mechanism would need to be mechanical and so there will be minor changes in the rate as the clicker is "primed" then comes the "crash" of the clicker on some part of the mount.

Insignificant to a visual person but imagers are talking about pixels in the micro-meter sizes.

[dragonlord]

For what purpose?

Knowing that the mount is set to 0,0 when you're trying to polar align it (fine tuning too).

Guess that the small click would cause a vibration and upset imaging to even a minor extent.

Any click mechanism would need to be mechanical and so there will be minor changes in the rate as the clicker is "primed" then comes the "crash" of the clicker on some part of the mount.

Insignificant to a visual person but imagers are talking about pixels in the micro-meter sizes.

it would also be trivial to make a click disengage-able with a switch, screw, or something like that.

[andyboy1970]

Good set of videos here-

[edjrgibbs]

I use a marker pen.

[knobby]

Me too