Whatever you choose, I suggest you seriously consider hail protection. Storms can occur with little warning including when you're not home to do anything about it.
I had plans to build a "motel-o-scope" for a pier-mounted 'scope, but ditched them as it would be destroyed in a hail storm (like the one that occurred in Canberra a year ago and wiped out two cars, windows, a pergola roof ... and even left permanent indentations in my garage door).
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