A double arm tangent drive for telescopes

Details A double arm tangent drive for telescopes A double arm tangent drive for telescopes

Apr 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jbaa..105...65c&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.105, no.2, p.65-68

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation, Amateur Telescope Making

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The simple tangent arm is rarely used for driving a telescope due to a rapid loss of accuracy with time. However using a second arm to drive the true tangent arm can theoretically give phenomenal accuracy for at least three hours of continuous following. This paper briefly describes the theory and construction of such a two arm mechanism which has proved to be very satisfactory in practice.

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