Reply To: Clock drive and Elbow Telescope

Your notes are beautiful. They remind me of my enthusiasm and excitement when I built my first telescope half a century ago. A Newtonian D200 f1400, worked on in my garage, the mount entirely homemade using mechanisms from old cars being scrapped and gears from a rotisserie, with manual tracking. The photometer was a photodiode at the focus of a microscope used to examine photographic plates. Reading your notes, memories emerge unchallenged and presumptuous.
Happy New Year 2026 (and following) to all of you.