Dave's 16 Inch Binocular Telescope Page

The ArgoNavis is the worlds best DSC (Digital Setting Circles) for astronomical telescopes. I've used the ArgoNavis for several years now and love it. Objects are in the center of the field of even my most high power eyepieces all night. I don't even need a laptop.

What is a DSC (digital setting circle)?

 Simply it's a computer with some digital inputs from rotation sensing encoders placed on both the Alt and Az axis of your telescope. When you start it up for the first time each evening you need to tell it where two common stars are by pointing it to them and selecting them from a large menu of available alignment stars. From then on it knows exactly where you telescope is pointing. But that is just the start it also has a 30,000 object database for you to look at almost anything in the sky you can think of. I don't need paper maps or planetarium programs at my telescope at night now. The ArgoNavis does it for me. Gary the owner of Wildcard innovations is a great person to deal with and the support is second to none.

Seen in the photo is an ArgoNavis and the hand pad for the RX Design ServoCat system which is talked about in the next page.

The binocular telescope is difficult to use with a normal finder so this finding system is almost essential