Motorized Barn Door Mount Plans
I am not aware of a stock number but the motor is marked as follows.
Motorized barn door mount plans. A manuscript entitled affordable astrophotography with a motorized barn door is available for download. The motor was sourced from american science and surplus for about 2 50 and is a 1 rpm ac motor. Build a motorized barn door tracker. A mean sidereal day is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 0916 seconds 23 9344696 hours this is the.
Singer controls division model 414 349 20 115v 60 hz 3w 1 rpm cw. The nyx tracker is a motorized barn door tracker used for astrophotography. The mount i constructed is motorized. What follows are instructions for building a simple motorized barn door photographic system for taking pictures of the night time sky.
Types of barn door trackers. Fortunately if you don t have the money to purchase a 1 000 equatorial mount but still want to take long exposure astrophotography the diy barn door tracking mount above will enable you to. Barn door photography systems have been around for years. There are a few different variations of a barn door tracker also known as a scotch mount or haig.
Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge.