The Trackball Telescope

Published on 2006-07-08 by Mark VandeWettering

Jerry Oltion designed created The Trackball Telescope, a telescope which rotates around on a spherical ball. It’s not that unusual to see these “ball” telescopes, but Jerry seems to have come up with a reasonably novel way to drive the telescope so that it will track stars as the earth rotates. Very neat for a small telescope.

[tags]Telescopes,Astronomy,Amateur Astronomy[/tags]