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    DIY ASTRONOMY

    Sep 16, 2021 3 minutes

    Make a counterbalance system

    Construct a home-built unit that will improve the tracking accuracy of your mount

    A well-balanced mount will track to the best of its ability and will improve Go-To accuracy, especially if you are guiding for long exposures on deep-sky objects as it will allow guiding corrections to be made with minimum effort. For an equatorial mount, both the right ascension (RA) and declination (dec.) axes require balancing to avoid overstressing the drive motors and gears in a conventional drive train, or to avoid slippage in

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