At this time I have no fixed setup in the backyard - take it out/in each night as I need it. Probably like everyone else in this situation, you realise how much time and effort is wasted in this process. In particular I feel "cheated" of usable time at the end when I have to pack it all up. Then there's the extra difficulty in achieving repeatable results since the mount's position is (slightly) different each night.
So, thoughts turn to a (semi)permanent setup in the backyard. I've been reading some the posts in this forum to get a feel of what might be involved.
On a completely separate path, the wife and I have been considering getting a caravan at some time in the next year or so.
It wasn't until I stumbled across some thread on Cloudy Nights, that I saw this:
http://www.patgarland.com/ and this:
STAR TRAVELER MOBILE OBSERVATORY that I wondered how feasible it was to combine the two together.
Although not perfect, it would be a more permanent setup than my current approach, and I could take it all with me to dark sites.
Has anyone on this forum done anything similar? Any thoughts about it?
I expect that if I were to go ahead with something similar, I'd have to find a caravan builder that can assist with the design and build. From what little research I've done so far, this looks possible, but I bet expensive.
