You Can Make And Use A Simple Good And Inexpensive EQ Mount And Tripod For Your Telescope Paperback – September 3, 2025

Are you an amateur astronomer who has wanted an equatorial (EQ) mount for a telescope but have not wanted or are able to pay the prices they ask, or maybe you need something custom? Perhaps you are not even sure what an EQ mount is. In this book you will learn what an EQ mount is and why you should be setting your telescope on one even if you only casually look through it into the heavens. And then you wil learn how you can build one for yourself out of PVC plumbing fittings and other common parts that you can get from your local hardware store or from various places online.Perhaps you are an amateur astronomer who is in high school and needing something to enter into competition for a science or engineering fair. This would be quite a hit!You might also be using a telescope with an ALT-AZ or Dobsonian mount. Both types of mounts are considerably cheaper than EQ mounts...and maybe that’s why you bought it. But...as you no doubt already know...keeping an object you’re viewing centered in the your view is not easy—not easy like it will be when you set your telescope atop an EQ mount! And, you’ll want to be using an EQ mount if you wish to take photos of objects at higher magnifications with exposures longer than a second.Or maybe you just live for the satisfaction and thrill of making something for yourself. If that’s you...you’ll get enjoyment in the doing and satisfaction in the using. And if you like to show off your work to others, you can take this mount to a star party...where people will not only be wowed by a look through your telescope but also wowed by your handiwork!In this book I’ll be showing you how to make both a full-featured and a bare-bones EQ mount. As of mid-2025, you can expect to pay around $425 in materials for the full-featured mount and around $75 for the bare-bones version. In addition to being just downright easy and fun to build...the bare-bones version would make a great project for a science fair!The reason that you bought this book is so that you will not make the same mistakes and incur all of the time and costs that I spent in design and re-work. I spent well over $625 in making my full-featured EQ mount! The $200 you’ll be saving more than covers what you paid for this book...not to mention all of my “wasted” time and materials in design and re-work. Open the book to see a photo of some of my discarded material...around $200 worth—plus many hours in labor: Read more