Astrowood HD Parallelogram Binocular Mount

A short video that describes the 4 degrees of motion with this parallelogram mount.

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• binocular
• mount
• parallelogram
• astrowood

[dwightinutah]

I have a set of 25x100 binoculars, but have never had a chance to scan the night sky with them. I recently had back surgery, and it will be a long while before I can use my binoculars for astronomy. I cannot lean my head back far enough to where my back arches backwards at all...even a degree or two. But once I am fully recovered, I hope to get a mount like this. It looks sturdy enough to hold my 10-pound binocs. And the workmanship looks superior. Good job.

[Astrowood]

I wish you a speedy recovery. Thank you for your comments, yes the mount is sturdy enough for a 10 lb binocular.

[ThunderBrolly]

I have been planning to MAKE, sorry.

[Astrowood]

Thankyou for the comment. If you would like some plans for this P-mount, send me an email.

[66JoeB]

Excellant job!Thanks for sharing.

[hhochhalter1968]

@Blaze1024 Actually, the term that is being described is 'degree of freedom' which describes the motion of a rigid body in three dimensional space. In this case, this mount provides 4 degrees of freedom (or motion) out of 6 possible; up/down, left/right/, roll, and yaw.

The terminology is correctly used.

[Blaze1024]

@crusheroftheist

My issue is not with the original poster of the video. Apparently he was simply repeating sales and marking disinformations. My problem is with the dumbing down of a hobby thats supposed to be based on science and math. What we are talking about here is simple high school geometry. You know, degrees and axes of motion. If someone doesn't take a stand, then plug and play consumers in ignorant bliss will simply continue following corporate marketing departments without question.

[Blaze1024]

Degrees of motion? Are you sure you don't mean Planes or Axis of motion? degrees are incremental measurements not planes of motion. If I'm correct your mount has four axes of motion. Astronomy is a hobby based on science so it would be helpful if we at least tried to use the proper definitions. .

[NuwKiru]

Very nice!

[Kamprothove]

I am grateful to you for going to the effort to create and post this video. Your mount is exactly what I had in mind and I would appreciate any plans you might have drawn up. I realize that the tripod would provide one constraint. For the metal parts, did you adapt something already made or did you manufacture these yourself? All in all, an excellent job. I wish that I had your creativity and talent.

Many thanks,

Paul

[jinglely7689]

A very nice mount for binoculars.

i want to make one just as your show,

may you provide some concern factors

1.wood material is some kind name of wood?

this wood tape like tripod use for painting.

2.on your tripod top, the lower base mount,

two pieces of plastic paper,how joint together?

thanks