Wheeled my little project out for its first taste of the great outdoors today, due to the late hour there will be no first light tonight as the poles will need to be shortened by 70mm. (The alt bearing did not allow the poles to be lowered enough to focus at infinity, the best I could do was to get the nearby hospital, which is about 600 metres, away into focus)
Balance was good, once the filter slide and baffle are attached, I expect to need only 1Kg of counterweight on the tailgate .......
Tomorrow will be first star test ........
Jobs still to be done:
Design and build filter slide system
Install UTA baffle
Install Telrad
Install encoders and DTC
I am pretty pleased with my first proper ATM build
