Make A Barn Door Tracker

Just wanted to mention a few quick adjustments and upgrades you can make to your barn door tracker that will make your life a little easier when you go out and put it to the test.

Make a barn door tracker.

The main difference is that the body of the hinge tracker is just a hinge so there aren t any plywood parts to cut. By 2 inch steel flat plates 13 99 each four 1 1 2 inch steel spacers about 6. A barn door tracker also known as haig or scotch mount is a camera mount used to take long exposure photographs of the night sky without the star trails caused by the rotation of the earth. Okay now that our disclaimer is in place here goes.

It consists of two boards connected by a hinge with a bolt which is turned to move the two boards apart or towards each other to counter the effects of. Hang the diy sliding barn door. Making the hangers and door stops. A followup appeared in the april 1989 issue.

A barn door is a specialized type of equatorial mount. While it s possible to make a bracket to attach the motor off to the side where it is on my barn door tracker i chose to mount mine in line for a more compact assembly. Use a small rubber band to keep the two boards on the turning bolt side sandwiched together. Create your own barn door track hardware.

The mount shown here employs a type 4 double arm design. Carefully roll it into each end to determine where to place the stops. With the track mounted finish the job by putting the door on the track. We bought everything from the home depot.

First cut the 500mm length in half and mount the hinge. Barn door track diy tutorial. The double arm design was first described in an article by dave trott published in the february 1988 issue of sky telescope magazine. This is a simple but useful upgrade.

We are hoping you can make some sense out of it and take what you can from it. Here s what you need to make a diy barn door track like ours. Mount the end stops bottom guides and any other hardware according to your specific set of instructions.