[leon]

Hi All

Now this is just a general sort of discussion topic, and would like some thoughts from you good people out there.

I have my 12' SCT pearched on a peir, where the plate it sits on is dead level, in fact it is that level that if i pour a cup of water on it, the water just sits in the middle and dosn't run off.

Ok, thats fine you say, but i want to get a wedge for it for astrophotography.

Bintel sells the super wedge for 995.00, thats to much for me, so i got thinking, and figured i could make one myself.

So here is my theory.

The peir is flat, i know exactly where the pole is even during the day, with 100% accuracy, "Now thats no bull" (the tip of the very last rung of our extended antanna on the roof is exactly 37 degrees, and also dead south.)

I have taken images through a postal tube on the polar shaft of my camera platform, with a camera stuck in the back of the tube, and exposeed for thirty minutes, pretty well spot on. (check out attachment)

I figured if i made a steel plate construction, with an angle of 37degrees, and pointed it directly south, wouldnt that serve the purpose for an equatorialy mounted scope, and be polar alinged.

I maybe wrong here, and missing something, please correct me if that is the case, but what would be the thoughts on that idea.

Thanks Leon