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Mark IV mount
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- Subject: Mark IV mount
- From: aah@nofs.navy.mil
- Date: Mon, 18 May 98 10:00:25 -0700
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I'm also in favor of a single mount with up to 4 cameras. I could
envision a square box to contain the 4 cameras that is then mounted in
a fork. The box side would be ~10" for the 4"/f4.0 cameras, so that
should be a relatively simple mount (after all, Meade does it pretty
cheaply!). For two-camera systems, you just fill two tubes of the four,
and put weights if necessary in the other two tubes for balance.
Having two separate mounts for the full-up 4 camera system is not
as good a solution in my opinion. It is harder to get the fields to
line up, the tracking will be different, two piers will be needed
instead of just one, and the wiring gets a little more complicated.
Arne