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Originally Posted by Veeger
Nice. I have never tried his method and it seems intuitively obvious. But I wonder if it's more difficult in alt-azi mode? Tracking north, south, east or west is not always easy. Probably won't work well for dobs.
-V
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Note my first words, " With an equatorially mounted scope you use Right Angle Sweep... "
In the 50's when I got my start nearly all scopes were on GEM mounts but for 60mm refractors. Dobson hadn't had his brilliant idea. So everyone used right angle sweep. But then Dobson changed the face of amateur astronomy and star hopping was in vogue since RA sweep didn't work with a Dobsonian mount or any other alt-azimuth mount, as you suggest, unless you are viewing right along the meridian. In the process RA sweep was forgotten though it still applies for equatorially mounted scopes.
Rick