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Originally Posted by AlexN
Thats awesome, and about perfect for what I can have in my yard... I've got his bookmarked for winter... Summer in Brisbane, it rains too much to get a half reasonable footing in the ground for a pier, so I'll wait until winter, then try to replicate this reasonably well.. For me, even if the scope comes inside at the end of the night, but the mount stays polar aligned outside, its a win! With my scope being a 1.15m long APO refractor, I think I'll have to settle for that, or expand the dimensions of your mini-observatory a little bit...
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Alex
Thanks - pretty happy with it. I currently have a 8" Skywatcher Newtonian operating in there (just shy of 800mm long) but a 1.15m refector with image train on the end as opposed to offset would be significantly different. I agree you would probably need to demount scope at night but even then you would need to carefully consider the clearance to the roof section in its retracted position.