Re: Titan East Side Heavy
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Sonny
you have spring-loaded worms, so you don't need to worry about biasing your weight :)
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:25 PM Paul Kanevsky < yh@...> wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 05:49 PM, Sonny Edmonds wrote:
East heavy always bothered me a bit.
There is no East in outer space.... 8^)
Besides, once the mount RA is West of the meridian, a little or a lot, where is your East heavy then?
I fully understand preloading the RA gearing a smidge. But it seems to me that becomes moot quickly as the mount gyrates about.
My RA axis is still a bit stiff, so I balance as bestest as I can.
Can anybody explain it better without using a compass heading?
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SonnyE
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Sonny,
Imagine a vertical plane passing through your mount and North and South poles. A wall. Anything on the east side of that wall should be slightly heavier than anything on the west side. When your OTA is on the west side of the wall, the counterweight should be slightly heavier. When the OTA is on the east side, then the OTA should be slightly heavier.
Some have devised a simple pulley system with a small hanging weight in order to automatically apply it to either side of the mount. You can also move a small magnetic weight when switching sides. Or, you can just not worry about it, if it's not causing you any problems! :)
Regards,
? ? -Paul
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