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23 January 2014, 16:31

AVR Barn Door Tracker for Astrophotography

[ZigZagJoe's] first foray into astrophotography is this impressive AVR barn door tracker, which steps up his night sky photo game without emptying his bank account. If you’ve never heard of astrophotography, you should skim over its Wikipedia page and/or the subreddit. The idea is to capture images otherwise undetectable by the human eye through longer exposures. Unfortunately, the big ball of rock we all inhabit has a tendency to rotate, which means you need to move the camera to keep the night sky framed up.

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23 January 2014, 16:49

That's is awesome indeed.

It gives me a thought. Could someone design and build an adaptation for the iPhone, and track away? Or be using the iPhone as the brains for tracking a known system?

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