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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Agreed for multiple mounts, a roll-off simply works. Domes are hard to beat for protection from wind buffeting and stray lights...the latter being my major problem.
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I've designed numerous ROR and built three and one 'flip-top'. IN the ROR's One 4 x3m, a 6 x 6m and 8 x 6m. Each roof rolls back to the north using a rack and pinion and hydraulic pump. Another uses an auto-gate motor and the small one, a R/P via a DC motor. Each one has 1.8m walls. The reason why I go RTOR's is because it allows one to use a multitude of cameras, lenses and scopes. While wind buffering can be a bit of hassle at times, I have never had any image shakes, as the motto I live by in telescope mounts is.. '
A tree is only as strong as its roots are deep' Those with heaps of room like in acreage, and ROR is the king. Those with limited space, a small scope a dome. Those into AstroPhotog'y will say, an ROR is the ONLY way to go.
Jim