Motorized Barn Door Mount Plans

Inexpensive and budget friendly it is useful for people interested in astrophotography but not ready to spend on expensive equipment.

Motorized barn door mount plans.

Barn door photography systems have been around for years. A manuscript entitled affordable astrophotography with a motorized barn door is available for download. The nyx tracker is a motorized barn door tracker used for astrophotography. 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.

Build a motorized barn door tracker. There are a few different variations of a barn door tracker also known as a scotch mount or haig. While this article discusses building a simple single arm version you can create some advanced versions that include electric motors and driver boards to control them. The motor was sourced from american science and surplus for about 2 50 and is a 1 rpm ac motor.

Mostly hand tools were used with the exception of a mitre saw to get the ends for the hinge. What follows are instructions for building a simple motorized barn door photographic system for taking pictures of the night time sky. This tracking mount follows the stars as they move through the sky. The mount i constructed is motorized.

Types of barn door trackers.