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Description: Pier made of concrete with internal structure and every base point to the ground is also deep with concrete.
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Description: Structure of the floor, steel cage (main square profiles of 3"x3"x4mm) and the roof, mounted on wheels inside the metal structure. Floor elevated from the ground.
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Description: Early stages of walls, starting internal isolation, pier ready for cabling and hole for the window.
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Description: Almost finished and the roof rolled out
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Description: Electric system from the solar panel on the roof.
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Description: The two scopes that are in operation at this time, the SpaceCat 51, and the Vixen ED80Sf
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Title: Looking north
Description: A view of my scope working at night. That is the view to the north, where right now I get Orion and Canis Major.
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Title: Looking East
Description: My scope working at night, and the east view I can get (5AM early December) Carina and the southern cross among other things.
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Title: Last member of the family
Description: Now the ASKAR FRA600 went to the pier and the Vixen to the CEM25P.
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Title: Vía Lactea in December
Description: A view of the via lactea from the door of the observatory, in December, looking east.
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Title: Changes and upgrade
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As it was pointed out a while ago, the observatory at home could host another pier, so I got a new mount, the GEM45, that so far is being tested on a tripod, and with my actual scope, the FRA600. So far so good, the out of the box guiding is around 0.7" - 0.8", with polar alignment around 1 arc-min. So , now I will start to build the independent and fixed pier for this mount. The previous CEM70 will host the 10" f/4 reflector, which still I have to collimate before going to its place on that mount. So far collimating has been a bit of a pain...
Just a comment, with my normal seeing my guiding goes closer to 1", and, on some really bad nights, even 1.2"
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Title: New Pier for the FRA600
Description: I built a new pier, with a concrete base and stell pier, made of a very thick steel tube and two 10mm thick plates for the bottom and top part of the structure. Here will host the GEM45 mount.
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Title: The two piers now are ready.
Description: Here is a view of the two piers, the big old one and the new one made of steel tube and concrete base. A bit more detail in the revision M, where you can see the parts. The old one, with the CEM70, will host the 10" Newton f/4 tube.
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Title: Garden set up
Description: My garden set up for solar system objects. Sometimes I need more north horizon, so from my garden is better than from my observatory. I have done 3 concrete bases, with indications, in order to place the tripod in the same orientation. This also is to be used with the small iOptron skyguider and the camera Sony, for very wide angle images.
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Title: New set up...soon
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I am mounting the new scope in my obs, a GSO 10" f/4 Newtonian telescope. The Telescope has been siting there for more than a year, waiting for me to get slowly all the additional stuff needed to become operational. So I am getting close now, and in the image you can see the FRA600 in the GEM45 and the GSO into the CEM70. I had to get additional 5 kg counterweight...
All the cables are just hanging from the equipment, hopefully within a few weeks I manage to get the first DSO with this equipment.
Aligning the scope has been not easy, and still further refinement is needed. The balancing also is a bit of an issue, but I will care more about that when all the additional equipment is in place.
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