Talk:Equatorial mount

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[edit] Merging telescope mount articles

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)

[edit] Replaced image

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)

• Wow if you think that picture is better there's something wrong. I am going to take a higher resolution image of the previous image and replace it back onto this article unless I see any objections. The article isn't about telescopes, it is about the mount, so I don't necessarilly think the telescope itself needs to be in the image. I'm not even sure what I'm looking at in the current image, so I think it needs to be replaced. --ScottyBoy900Q 22:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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)

[edit] Diagrams needed

Hmm. Serious need for some real pictures, rather than the word pictures of the "English Fork", "German mount" etc.