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I suspect that you will have problems with using a tripod at this latitude. The pier extension is not expensive whereas higher up mounts will be and will have much the same problem. If you want to get into astro photography there is a lot to be said for a permanent pier. This you can build yourself and use the top part of the tripod as the mounting plate for the mount. Alternatively there are portable piers that have three horizontal legs at the bottom.
This setup is a good buy, I have built up to this myself and I know how much more I have paid.
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