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Old 29-01-2012, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
That's where the slots are handy as you need to know which way is the south celestial pole before you fix it down hard otherwise unless you have a rotating pier adapter you may not have your mount close enough to the south celestial pole to achieve polar alignment. So mark that out on your pier before you install anchor bolts.

Greg.
Good point, I was going to use a plumb bob and get the shadow from it.
Wouldn't want to go to all that effort and have it facing east. I am sure it has been done before.
Here are a few pics on my effort today. Still a long way to go. I want to have the cement poured by the end of this week.


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Phil
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