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I'll post some shots on the weekend, I'm still along way from motorising and encoding the roof to slave it to the mount!
To me a observatory and permanent pier are excellent. My set-up time is literally about 7 minutes to be ready for astrophotography - power on PC, check Windows date and time, open dome, remove lens caps, enter PC's date and time into hand controller, slave scope to the PC Cartes Du Ciel, turn on camera's, start remote shutter and PhD. Go to a star, calibrate guidescope on a star, snap a shot, check focus is okay and you're away.
All this from ultra cheapo gear (CG5) which is overloaded (probably to 15 - 17KGs) = amazing! My goto's (awaking from hiberate) generally place a star on the Canon 400D's chip, which blow me away.
All I really should do now is celestial align the mount a tad better and tune backlash a bit more. At present I reckon I'm about 15 - 20 arc minutes off celestial South.
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