the world’s first (I think) laptop-controlled binocular mirror mount. for those not yet ‘in the know’, the binocular mirror mount is designed to make star-gazing easy with a pair of binos. the usual problem is pretty simple: holding binoculars up to see the sky gets tiring (and therefore wobbly) pretty quickly. over time, humanity has thrown up a number of ingenious solutions to this particular problem. one of them is to point the binoculars down (and look through them as if they were a microscope) and pointing at a mirror. The mirror reflects the sky. The mount holds the binos steady. All is well.
like Craig Colvin’s:
actually, there is another solution – a parallelogram mount. this suspends the binos above the person’s head. the mount is balanced so that while the binos are still pointing upwards, you can sit in a deckchair or other comfy seat and look up to the heavens.
like Jan van Gastel’s:
there are plenty of discussions out there over the ‘best mount’ – see for example Ed Zarenski’s excellent in-depth analysis. but importantly, people like to get stuck in on the issue and it can get a bit like the Judean People’s Front vs the People’s Front of Judea!
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