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Originally Posted by Meru
Excellent work Lee,
A micro-pier/obs sounds very sensible. I was very fortunate to have a friend who does this work and got mine made very cheap. Seems like you got everything sorted but here is a link to my (totally overkill for a future 16" APO when I become a Billionaire) pier if it helps with any ideas:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...highlight=Meru
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Cheers mate. Nice pier, and that a good price too... if I was able to get a steel one for that I wouldn't be bothering with this.
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Originally Posted by bugeater
What's the stability likely to be on something like this for imaging? I'm busy planning how to build an observatory, but getting a pier together is the current unknown.
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Hopefully very good, because I only do imaging so if it doesn't work for that, it'll be a complete waste of time/money/effort.
Once it's done I'll give some more solid answers but all I can say now is other people are doing it and it seems to work for them.
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Originally Posted by Somnium
when are you building ? i would love to see some pics
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Just bought a new router yesterday; I plan to do some work in the coming days. Maybe tonight, maybe not... depends how the weather goes.
At the moment the only pics I have is a couple of bricks being glued together which isn't terribly exciting but I'll add pics as I go :-)