What is a bit of a shame is that the Explorer 130 lacks a motor drive because telescopes using equatorial mounts are ideal for astrophotography. For example, attaching a camera to a telescope on a ...

This project is a DIY improvement for a cheap EQ3-like equatorial telescope mount. Cheap mounts are often sold with motor packages ... As they are cheap, the do not include any accurate timing or ...

Having already motorized the two axes of the equatorial mount of his modest telescope as a senior project ... His first inclination was to use a stepper motor like he did on the other two ...

An equatorial table ... but not even the telescope needs to be that expensive. A Dobsonian telescope can be put together fairly quickly sometimes using off-the-shelf parts from IKEA.

It allows a fully remote operation of the mount by removing the tedious manual startup proceeding. The code is built using PlatformIO, so you'll need to install it in order to build the Arduino ...

Equatorial mounts are aligned with the celestial ... as well as the dovetail and rings or clamps you use to attach the ...