Talk:Equatorial mount

message: Hello.  I was browsing the various telescope mount articles recently (see Telescope mount, Altazimuth_mount, Equatorial mount, Dobsonian), and I'd like to propose merging them into a single Telescope mount article.  Does anyone have any thoughts about this?  If so, could you please visit Talk:Telescope_mount#What.27s_the_role_of_this_article and perhaps comment?  Izogi 04:02, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging telescope mount articles 

message: I replaced :image:Equatorial mount.jpg with :image:Forststernwarte Jena 50cm-Cassegrain 1.jpg because the former is hard to understand since it is blury, has no telescope attached, and has no counter weight attached. 69.72.7.12 19:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The current guideline on Wikipedia is to make technical articles accessible. It is hard to explain the function of a telescope mount to the layman if the illustration does not include the telescope. Images of just the mount bring up the question "huh?, what?, the telescope goes on this thing where?". Articles such as this are not sub-manuals in a telescope book so they need to be pretty much self expaitory. 69.72.2.71 21:04, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Replaced image

message: Hmm. Serious need for some real pictures, rather than the word pictures of the "English Fork", "German mount" etc.
Agree. The principles are not well described by examples of those principles in practice. Clear, simple diagrams of the axes and their interrelation to each other an the Earth and celestial sphere are badly needed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.88.4.187 (talk) 06:51, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Diagrams needed

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message: Came here looking for a description of how this thing works (ie process by which is it aligned with rotation, etc), didnt find it. 
47.29.68.71 (talk) 20:11, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure what you are looking for. How to align one? Wikipedia is not a "how-to". How observatories align theirs? That could be added if sources exist. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 21:36, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation needed 

message: I am not sure if this is new design but for few years iOptron was producing ZEQ and CEM series mounts. They are center balanced mounts, with a Ra axis in a shape of Z. The CEM120 has a bit different design, but also is center balanced. They say it is a new design, presumably patented, but maybe there is a prior art on this, or similar mounts in some observatories? 81.6.34.246 (talk) 22:13, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks to be a GEM with a $4000 name. There are many ways to skin the cat, but I think it still falls under the basic GEM design and would be a sub type. Worth mentioning there if there is RS on it. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 17:23, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Center Balanced Mount (CEM)