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@geoflewis amazing detail. Do you track on Jupiter?

Without wishing to jinx myself, my mesu e200 guides at 0.4” RMS or less regularly using an OAG (with say 30kg load and 20kg CWs). But yes these are expensive mounts.

Have some DN100 but it’s a 2m length so going to chop it half and weld a plate onto it.

My friend delivered some free piping. Starting building up my pier last night. This is for my solar scope so only going to be a lightweight setup <10-12kg total. I have another larger pipe but it needs cut and a piece welded onto the base so need to dust off the welder.

Nice and fluffy looking Lee, good job!! You can see a bit of colour noise, but imaging in the city must make it hard to get rid of this.

At first glance I thought Takahashi had brought out a mini Epsilon 🤣

My worst purchase was the high speed narrowband filters from Baader - they simply didn’t work as described - haloes, and the oiii was completely off band. The aftersales from Baader from very poor and as a result I will never purchase Baader again. Thankfully FLO refunded me.

Thank you.

This is pretty much exactly the same as my last pier, and it held a mesu mount and a few telescopes with zero issues.

@Coolhand1988 This hole is 60cm x 60cm x 60cm. A 120cm x 120cm x 120 seems ambitious

Seems very large, and a lot of digging by spade! I have very hard rocky ground, so I had an advantage. My foundation is not too large that I can walk around the pier without touching the concrete, and I poured a separate platform to walk on physically separated from the pier foundation.

I think unless you make your pier out of a potato, it’ll be perfectly adequate. And it’s not all about the pier itself, but what you bolt the pier to. If your brothers offering a pier id accept that offer personally, and try to incorporate some of your preferred features into it. I’ve had a couple of concrete piers with rats cages (poured inside a sewer pipe) and now I have a heavy duty metal pier. Can’t say I noticed any differences. All were incorporated/bolted onto a large sunken cube of concrete about 70x70x70cm.

The tried and tested EQ6:

Hi. I’m looking at 1m in height. EQ6, total load 35kg (mount CWs scope).

I love the cable management.

Cheers Jim. Another friend just text to say he thinks he has some 100mm or 150mm flanged iron pipe left over from a job so could be in luck. I’ll know tomorrow when he checks sizes. Currently have no vibration issues that I’m aware of in the dome. No wind on the scope is one of the big advantages of the dome

Thanks guys. If I’m imaging remotely or not moving around does it matter much about vibration suppression? I suppose the wind could cause vibration?

Cheers Jim. Good to know options 👍🏻

Would you be able to post some photos? I’ve this one here that my friend made but I want a simpler (cheaper) option this time and I plan to weld it up myself.

Very nice Paul, did you get much last night or the night before?

Looking to erect another pier, currently trying to source some metal pipe. As an alternative could I use a section of H iron? Cheers!

I wont really be able to give you a very meaningful report. I'm almost exclusively an imager with scopes, and I only occasional take a look. I was able to get very nice tight diffraction spikes visually on vega last night, and I could separate the ring passing in front of saturn quite easily. The moon was very low when I saw it, but again looked plentiful in detail. I was able to magnify Jupiter to 120x easily, but wasnt able to get more mag, because my eyepiece case was in the bedroom and I didnt fancy waking up the other half to grab a shorter EP. I have no doubt it would have taken more mag easily. I could see the bands easily and a minute amount of detail within it. The scope had been outside for several hours at this point and was well cooled. I chose this scope because the mirror doesnt move unlike the 260, plus it's more suited to imaging. I dont plan to image with it until into the new year.

Good looking scope the VC200L, even on my wee old run down LXD75. The whole thing has been on point tonight, centering perfectly some easy targets (m57 m27 m13, planets, alberio) within a 15mm Meade EP every time Edited to add, 12:1 focuser knob fitted today also, cheers Tim.@Franklin

First light 🤩