From: "charles f" 
To: bobmay{at}nethere.com, atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "charles f" 


Hi Bob,

I have to agree with you on mels stuff.  I am in the computer field and
have developed electronics for the cubscout's pinewood durby races.  His
seem simplistic and well thought out.  I am not into CCD imaging at this
point, and the scope I am building/desiging, wont be used for that either. 
This scope also has to be portable as it will go to the campgrounds with my
family during the summer, and around with me.  I believe I am going to
create a simple system that will simply move the alt and az via a joy
stick. and not use a tracking system at this point.  I will be happy with
simply moving the scope as needed with a simple joystick,  (left right up
down) for viewing.  focus it in, and give it a tap up/down left/right to
keep it in the eye.  Tracking will be nice for a larger scope.  My scope in
production will still be an 8" truss scope.  I consider my first scope
a prototype and this new scope a continuing lesson.  I will save the
tracking system for the 16" scope when I have the time and money to
build it.  The 16" will have all the bells on it,  webcam, tracking,
manual tracking.  Also, It will be controlled and viewed remotely.  I will
have the ability to put the scope outside when it is very cold out, or to
buggy, and run it remotly while Im inside, or even have the images go
directly to a website for live images. Maybe even set up a web application
to let visitors, such as cubscouts, view and control the scope for thier
own project.   All in due time.  enough
rambling and dreaming,  time to plan tonights viewing.

look up, look out, look back in time.

Charles in wilmington






>From: "Bob May" 
>Reply-To: "Bob May" 
>To: "atmlist" 
>Subject: Re: ATM motorized scope?
>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:24:14 -0800
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>There indeed have been many ways of doing the job.  I enjoy pointing out to
>you Mel Bartel's website for a complete system (including all of the
>software and other such things) to motorizing a Dob style scope.  I don't
>know if anybody has made up PCBs and is selling them for the scope but I
>have seen the design working at Stellafane one year.  After getting the
>bugs
>out of the hardware (it was first light for the scope and electronics
>there)
>the scope performed well.
>As a hardware electonics guy at the cutting edge of the technology, I
>considered the mechanics of the hardware to be a bit of old tech but it all
>worked very nicely and the electronics that Mel did is first rate,
>especially for the average amateur at electronics.  The papers that I also
>saw were a first rate description of what the electronics was doing and was
>easily followed.
>Bob May
>http://nav.to/bobmay
>bobmay{at}nethere.com
>NEW! http://bobmay.astronomy.net


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