Motorized Barn Door Mount Plans

There are a few different variations of a barn door tracker also known as a scotch mount or haig.

Motorized barn door mount plans.

The nyx tracker is a motorized barn door tracker used for astrophotography. Barn door photography systems have been around for years. A manuscript entitled affordable astrophotography with a motorized barn door is available for download. This tracking mount follows the stars as they move through the sky.

A mean sidereal day is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 0916 seconds 23 9344696 hours this is the. What follows are instructions for building a simple motorized barn door photographic system for taking pictures of the night time sky. The motor was sourced from american science and surplus for about 2 50 and is a 1 rpm ac motor. Types of barn door trackers.

Inexpensive and budget friendly it is useful for people interested in astrophotography but not ready to spend on expensive equipment. I am not aware of a stock number but the motor is marked as follows. 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. The mount i constructed is motorized.

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.