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Too Early To Tell
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Daniel Johnson on September 8, 2003 21:24:45 UTC |
There are two questions regarding accuracy of tracking. One is for purely visual use, i.e. no long-exposure photographs. There's no reason a Dob couldn't track just as accurately as Autostar does in altazimuth mode--it's just that motorized & computerized Dobs are new. The Dob is, after all, just a very simple and stable altazimuth mount. The computerized part is actually not new--for several years, companies have made computers that will tell you when your Dob is pointed at the object you want--you just have to push it there by hand, using the computer's feedback. No one has yet written reviews of the new Orion Dobs, which sound as if they're motorized,if I read the ads correctly. So the jury's out there.
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