The Pointer version 1.4
No tripod used, the camera or binocular is at eye level.

I am still looking for a bigger "gradeboog for the elevation setting or I willprint and laminate one. The Azimuth "gradeboog here is made of paper, but I will make something more permanent.

This one is not as steady as the version 1.3 , so i will have to brace it in some way, but in the meantime I enjoy using it.

I still think mounting a rifle scope will make it the best tool for accurately spotting satelites, (except of coarse for the real pro equipment) but in the new PM there is an advert for a 20 - 50 x 50 compact scope wich I think is ideal for a lot of my hobbies and it has a mounting screw hole.

Please comment.

Pointer 1.3

There it is, before attaching the "gradeboog" for elevation and azimuth.

The first two pictures are upside down snhowing the base components and assembled.
The knob portruding from the base in the assembled view is the screw for attaching the camera to the platform, when the pointer is not in use, it is used to keep the base part together, a job normaly done by the tripod screw.

H ere it is mounted on a very flimsy, miniature tripod just to show what it looks like.