Barn Door Tracker Calculator

A home made barn door tracker will cost less than half as much if you buy everything new and even less if you only buy the parts unique to the tracker the motor mount tripod bushings and tripod ball head.

Barn door tracker calculator. Hinges scrap wood and even lantern batteries can often be found lying around in a suitably stocked garage. The nyx tracker is a motorized barn door tracker used for astrophotography. This tracking mount follows the stars as they move through the sky. Inexpensive and budget friendly it is useful for people interested in astrophotography but not ready to spend on expensive equipment.

It spins against the earth so you don t get star trails. It also shows diy. All dimensions except the barn door radius are limited to what you can find to buy. A video diary of the digitization of my barn door tracker.

Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. A sidereal day on earth is 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 091 seconds long or 1436 minutes about 4 minutes shorter than a standard solar day and we can use this time to calculate the rate at which the barn door tracker needs to turn. Plan your next pole barn project online with our free calculator. Calculating mount movements paul february 3 2014 at 8 57 am.

Assembly setting up your door tracker. Get an instant pole barn pricing quote with carter lumber s free pole barn cost estimator. I ve been looking for a good arduino project for a while and also looking into a tracking mount for my camera this project would suit both perfectly. The heart of my tracker is a heavy duty 8 inch strap hinge made by stanley hardware.

This shows how added a threaded stepper motor to the rig for automatic tracking. The calculator at the right will find the proper barn door radius given any combination of the other dimensions. That means we want to spin our barn door tracker at a rate of 360 degrees every 24 hours which comes out to be 0 25 degrees per minute. You can use any brand the crucial parameter is the distance from the centre of the hinge pin to the centre of the hole at the far end of the hinge which should be close to 7 3 16 inches 182mm.

The initial dimensions are the ones used for the barn door tracker pictured above.