Or would the tolerances needed in the hinged mirror make the whole thing unusable?

I was looking at modern “smart telescopes” recently and noticed some are sideways and wondered if that would be possible for a normal hobby Newtonian telescope.

Possible upsides:

  • no tripod needed for use
  • mirror is light so smaller motors can be used for movement

Possible downsides:

  • maybe mirror flatness?
  • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Wow that quite the telescope! This is basically what i wanted to build just smaller and and with a Reflector scope instead of a Refactor scope, thank you very much for this informative comment :D