Talk:Altazimuth mount

Merging telescope mount articles
Hello. I was browsing the various telescope mount articles recently (see Telescope mount, Altazimuth_mount, Equatorial mount, Dobsonian), and I'd like to propose merging them into a single Telescope mount article. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? If so, could you please visit Talk:Telescope_mount and perhaps comment? Izogi 04:02, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

History of the Altazimuth mount

 * Until roughly the 1960s, altazimuth mounts were considered a poor alternative to equatorial mounts due to their inability to follow diurnal motion by rotation about a single axis.

Moved above to talk because Albert G. Ingalls would not be a source on this, he was dead before the 1960's and therefor could not make a comparison of "considerations" in different decades. Needs some secondary sources. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 22:35, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * rm'ed (some for the second time) this series of statements since they are not supported by citation, contain weasel words such as "have often been preferred", make no sense in general. Also this---> "simplified design" is an eateregg, please see WP:EGG. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 19:31, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

It's not all about telescopes!
Alt-azimuth mounts are used for many applications besides holding telescopes. Large numbers of them, for example, hold heliostat mirrors in solar-thermal power stations. The largest such stations have more than a thousand heliostats, each with an alt-az mount. So let's not write this page with too much concentration on telescopes, nor with too much comparison with equatorial mounts, which are not useful for heliostats, cameras, antennas, etc..

DOwenWilliams (talk) 22:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC) David Williams