Talk:Altazimuth mount

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Merging telescope mount articles[edit]

Hello. I was browsing the various telescope mount articles recently (see Telescope mount, Altazimuth_mount, Equatorial mount, Dobsonian), and I'd like to propose merging them into a single Telescope mount article. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? If so, could you please visit Talk:Telescope_mount#What.27s_the_role_of_this_article and perhaps comment? Izogi 04:02, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

History of the Altazimuth mount[edit]

Until roughly the 1960s, altazimuth mounts were considered a poor alternative to equatorial mounts due to their inability to follow diurnal motion by rotation about a single axis.^[1]

Moved above to talk because Albert G. Ingalls would not be a source on this, he was dead before the 1960's and therefor could not make a comparison of "considerations" in different decades. Needs some secondary sources. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 22:35, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

rm'ed (some for the second time) this series of statements[1] since they are not supported by citation, contain weasel words such as "have often been preferred", make no sense in general. Also this---> "simplified design" is an eateregg, please see WP:EGG. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 19:31, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Ingalls, Albert G. (1980). Amateur Telescope Making. Scientific American.

It's not all about telescopes![edit]

Alt-azimuth mounts are used for many applications besides holding telescopes. Large numbers of them, for example, hold heliostat mirrors in solar-thermal power stations. The largest such stations have more than a thousand heliostats, each with an alt-az mount. So let's not write this page with too much concentration on telescopes, nor with too much comparison with equatorial mounts, which are not useful for heliostats, cameras, antennas, etc..

DOwenWilliams (talk) 22:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC) David Williams[reply]

[1] Ingalls, Albert G. (1980). Amateur Telescope Making. Scientific American.

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