Quote:
Originally Posted by The_bluester
My biggest problem is that it is hard where I am to put in a pier somewhere reasonably close to the house (For access reasons, I am NOT carting a 25kg scope across muddy paddocks in winter) that does not cop too much stray light from the road (We are on 44 acres in a wedge but there is a sweeping corner on the point of the property so headlights pretty well sweep the place from corner to corner and next to the house is about the only place where understorey shrubs would help protect my night vision) and still give me a decent patch of sky to look at.
I think if I decide to loose everything pretty well from about twenty or so degrees west of the zenith then I could put in a pier next to the garage (At the eastern end of the house) and get sky from about fifteen degrees above the horizon to twenty odd degrees west of the zenith in almost any direction.
Maybe I should just do it. It would be nice to be able to get right up close to the scope on a chair without getting tangled in the tripod legs. And I could even (Eventually) build an observatory around it and bring in power from the garage. How civilised would it be to be able to boil a kettle and brew up a cuppa without even going inside!
|
Just do it Paul! The sky cleared a bit around 9:30 so I took the beast out to have a look at the Supermoon. Even with the moon filter, it nearly blinded me! Reckon I could have just about lit a fire with it! Just sitting on a bench but tracking like I have never seen before. My poor old Nexstar 80 ain't in the hunt anymore! Of course, the wind and any movement on the deck had it wobbling all over the place, but it gave me a very good idea of what it will be like on a peir!
It also sounds like you have much better "Sky" than I do! The house cuts out just about everything to the west, and the town and power stations generate a lot of pollution to the east, while the half roof and trees cut just about everything out to the south. But, Like Ballaratdragons said very early on in this thread, I answered my own question! If I have a peir out there, I will certainly use it! Any half chance of a sky clear enough to see something and I'm gonna be out there!
If you feel the same way then?
By the way, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, I LOVE this scope!!!
Ken