Setting Up a Simple Mount System
Important fundamentals that underpin all that follows.
Regardless of whether you are setting up a full-blown imaging system or a portable rig, there are some basic things to do at the outset, associated with stability, alignment, balance and targeting. Setting up includes one-time calibrations and adjustments, as well as repeated start-up activities that become second nature after some practice. There is also an element of chicken and egg: a degree of assembly and installation is required for instance before one can successfully do the one-time alignments and it may need a few iterations to get everything just so. We start with the basics and in later chapters, add more exotic equipment.
