出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/03/21 14:02 UTC 版)
An equatorial platform or equatorial table is an equatorial telescope mount in the form of a specially designed platform that allows any device sitting on it to track astronomical objects in the sky on an equatorial axis. They are used to give equatorial tracking to any device sitting one them, from small camera's up to entire observatory buildings. They are often used with altazimuth mounted telescopes, such as the common Dobsonian telescope type, to over come that type of mounts inability to track the night sky.