Hi all,
Well, after many years, my dream has come true.
The pier went in last Saturday, and, I had some machining done during the week to fit the pier head to the pier.
I had the day off work today so went about setting everything up.
As you can see from the pictures, it's a bit of a cable mess, but, that's part of the joy of this hobby, I guess.
The total height from base to tip of the FS-60CB is 2 metres. I think I will be parking the system on its side.
Once I've got some funds, I will start building the actual observatory itself.
I asked my beautiful wife what we should call our observatory. She suggested Hummel; a portmanteau of the first syllables of both our names (Humayun and Melanie). I thought, why not?
So, anyway, attached are a couple of pictures taken with my iPhone, showing how it looks at the moment. I will be going outside shortly to load up PEMPro and do a polar alignment and then finesse it with a drift.
Thanks for looking!
H