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Originally Posted by Kokatha man
But I was presuming you were going to have some sort of pier as per your original post: those collars you can buy for your tripod top from MyAstroshop etc don't turn your mount into a pier;
Cheers, Darryl.
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I understand what you're saying Darryl. My thoughts were to do away with the tripod and have a permanent post/pier cemented into the ground. Then somehow use the collar/extension pillar in conjuction with the pier to just plonk my eq6 mount head on top of it whenever I want and be polar aligned everytime(after initial drift aligning).
Total cost estimated at about $100 instead of $400+ they want in the shops.
It would be nice to eventually build an observatory around the pier but that's another story.
cheers
Mark