Editing Altazimuth mount (section)

====Amateur telescopes====
* Beginner telescopes: Altazimuth mounts are cheap and simple to use.
* [[Dobsonian telescope]]s: [[John Dobson (astronomer)|John Dobson]] popularized a simplified altazimuth mount design for [[Newtonian reflectors]] because of its ease of construction; Dobson's innovation was to use non-machined parts for the mount that could be found in any hardware store such as [[plywood]], [[formica (plastic)|formica]], and plastic plumbing parts combined with modern materials like [[nylon]] or [[teflon]].
* "[[GoTo (telescopes)|GoTo]]" telescopes: It has often proved more convenient to build a mechanically simpler altazimuth mount and use a [[motion controller]] to manipulate both axes simultaneously to track an object, when compared with a more mechanically complex [[equatorial mount]] that requires minimally complex control of a single motor.