Motorized Barn Door Mount

Make sure everything is square and moves freely clap the 2 hinged boards together and shout action a few times like they do when making movies if it makes a nice clack sound it should work well for a star tracker now measure 228 55mm from the center of the hinge pin down the middle of the board and mark the drive rod holes do this on.

Motorized barn door mount.

This tracking mount follows the stars as they move through the sky. There are several designs out there the one i made is called a curved sector drive because the threaded rod it uses is curved. Don t get out of your car. The nyx tracker is a motorized barn door tracker used for astrophotography.

Inexpensive and budget friendly it is useful for people interested in astrophotography but not ready to spend on expensive equipment. You can use a straight tangent drive but the drive screw should be. The tracking action of the barn door mount is achieved by lifting the upper board at the correct rate by means of a motor driving a nut on a threaded rod. Singer controls division model 414 349 20 115v 60 hz 3w 1 rpm cw.

Great for vehicular sliding door applications the edison will civilize your sliding door operation like never before. I am not aware of a stock number but the motor is marked as follows. You mount your camera on the door then aim the hinge straight at the north star polaris. 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. Edison sliding openers aos for garages doors or pole barns. The barn door mount i built took only a few hours of effort and cost only a few dollars over the tripod and camera ball mount i already had. Don t get off of your tractor.

Let the edison sliding opener open your barn doors with ease. First cut the 500mm length in half and mount the hinge. A barn door tracker also known as a haig or scotch mount is a device used to cancel out the diurnal motion of the earth for the observation or photography of astronomical objects it is a simple alternative to attaching a camera to a motorized equatorial mount. Barn door photography systems have been around for years.

A manuscript entitled affordable astrophotography with a motorized barn door is available for download.