I really appreciate your ongoing contributions to the Hadley community, this seems like a really interesting option, and I love getting to see the iteration of the design.
Dave, this is a great contribution to the Hadley community. This has become an amazing father/son activity and we're loving it. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind: 1. If you were to add a few gears/knobs to this, where would you add them? I'm thinking of remixing this to allow fine control with a knob - although i don't know if that's needed or not. 2. What about a "brake" to lock it in place? Having a 12 year old try to reach the eyepiece (plus he wears glasses), every now and then he bumps into the telescope. I'd love to be able to fix it in place when passing it to him. Thoughts?
Wow, that's great to hear! Those are great suggestions but I'd have to take a look and think about how to implement them. Others have suggested developing a go-to version, so what ever sort of manual drive knobs could possibly also be driven my a similar mechanism. I'm not sure when/if ill have time to work on that but the design is open source so if you want to have a crack, go for it. (search printables for the files as my site is currently down.)
I love it! Glad to have provided some inspiration with my random posts on the internet. I think I may try it out for use with my Orion ST80 for when I don't feel like pulling the 8" dob out!
Just finished printing mine out, waiting on a couple of longer M5 screws and then it's off to the races. Would be really, really interested to see this transformed to a go-to, would be printing and making it immediately on release
What do you think the weight limit would be on this? Do you think it would work for a larger telescope like the "Leavitt"? For context, the Leavitt uses an 8" mirror.
I realize that you get a better range of motion doing it this way. But I do wonder... Hanging that much weight off one side of the mount will result in uneven load. Wouldn't it run smoother if you had the load centered?
Possibly smoother and, more importantly, less wobbly if the telescope was centered. However that would basically just be a Dobsonian style mount, which already exists for this scope. The purpose of this mount it to have something that will work with a standard astronomy or photo/video tripod that you may already have.
I really appreciate your ongoing contributions to the Hadley community, this seems like a really interesting option, and I love getting to see the iteration of the design.
I'm just stoked there is such a large community around building a cool little telescope! Glad to be able to contribute what ever I can.
Dave, this is a great contribution to the Hadley community. This has become an amazing father/son activity and we're loving it. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind: 1. If you were to add a few gears/knobs to this, where would you add them? I'm thinking of remixing this to allow fine control with a knob - although i don't know if that's needed or not. 2. What about a "brake" to lock it in place? Having a 12 year old try to reach the eyepiece (plus he wears glasses), every now and then he bumps into the telescope. I'd love to be able to fix it in place when passing it to him. Thoughts?
Wow, that's great to hear!
Those are great suggestions but I'd have to take a look and think about how to implement them. Others have suggested developing a go-to version, so what ever sort of manual drive knobs could possibly also be driven my a similar mechanism. I'm not sure when/if ill have time to work on that but the design is open source so if you want to have a crack, go for it. (search printables for the files as my site is currently down.)
nice work!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice! The tries are very interesting !
Thanks! I wasn't sure if that would be interesting or not so glad you like it.
I love it! Glad to have provided some inspiration with my random posts on the internet. I think I may try it out for use with my Orion ST80 for when I don't feel like pulling the 8" dob out!
Cool, let me know how that works out!
Just finished printing mine out, waiting on a couple of longer M5 screws and then it's off to the races.
Would be really, really interested to see this transformed to a go-to, would be printing and making it immediately on release
Cool man. Yeah a go-to version would be a fun project!
Did you ever figure out how many screws/sizes you'll need? I'm ordering from Aliexpress and would love to get the right ones on the first go!
Dude this mount is awesome. I am going to attempt a modification to make it work with a 3D printed 76mm newtonian I am working on.
Cool! What needs to be modified? It uses a standard vixen style dovetail mount. Can you newtonian accomodate that?
What do you think the weight limit would be on this? Do you think it would work for a larger telescope like the "Leavitt"? For context, the Leavitt uses an 8" mirror.
I think it's limited to only light payloads, maybe 2-4 pounds. Definitely not adequate for an 8 in mirror.
I realize that you get a better range of motion doing it this way. But I do wonder... Hanging that much weight off one side of the mount will result in uneven load. Wouldn't it run smoother if you had the load centered?
Possibly smoother and, more importantly, less wobbly if the telescope was centered. However that would basically just be a Dobsonian style mount, which already exists for this scope. The purpose of this mount it to have something that will work with a standard astronomy or photo/video tripod that you may already have.