Two-axis mounting structure for a telescope
AssigneeCarl-Zeiss-Stiftung
InventorKarl-Heinz Hager
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Abstract
The invention contemplates an improved two-axis mount or adapter whereby a telescope may be mounted to a given base structure, for precise polar-axis motion and/or declination-axis motion. This is achieved in a unit-handling structure wherein a single housing provides rugged, wide-based journal support for each of two elongate shafts, orthogonally oriented and at close-clearance offset where their directions cross within the housing. One of these shafts has externally projecting provision for fixedly securing the same to desired base structure, and the other shaft has externally projecting provision for securing the telescope thereto.
Claims7
As an article of manufacture, a two-axis telescope mount, comprising a rigid generally rectangular prismatic housing having first and second pairs of opposite side walls, a first-axis shaft journaled in a first pair of said walls and including means external of said housing for fixed-reference mounting of said shaft, a second-axis shaft journaled in a second pair of said walls and including means external of said housing for secure connection to a telescope, said shafts extending within said housing in orthogonally related directions and in close but clearance-offset relation to each other.
As an article of manufacture, a two-axis telescope mount, comprising a rigid housing having first and second pairs of opposite side-wall portions, a first-axis shaft journaled in said first pair of side-wall portions and including means external of said housing for fixed-reference mounting of said shaft, a second-axis shaft journaled in the second pair of side-wall portions and including means external of said housing for secure connection to a telescope, said shafts extending within said housing in orthogonally related directions and in close but clearance-offset relation to each other.
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