Well today wasn't the best of days weather wise, so I decided to do a make do construction for the EQ6.
I found a bit of aluminium tubing (scrap)
, found a few bolts in the shed and a heap of washers. Did a bit of precision drilling with the help of my 4 year old son
and marking out with my 8 year old daughter. I attached the little bit of the bar I had to the aluminium tube. So anyway here is the finished product
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It is sort of along the lines I was wanting, a great place to start from to get to what I want. Mick P please turn away now
, I know its rough
but I needed to work out what i want to achieve. I don't know how I will get the two optical system parallel. or even if they have to be exactly aligned?
I intend to guide with the Intes scope, one day I might get a ST4 or STV to autoguide with (no laptop).