Alan White

What other EP do you have? What are you wanting to look at with the addition of a new EP at about 130x magnification? If your scope is 2000mm FL as I think it is?? OK edite from here: As others are just voting, Vixen NPL. Good optics, Good Price, with a driven mount FOV in my view is irrelevant.

Hi Dave, so thick base, 8 gussets at plate base junction, do you suggest the gussets at low level or all the way up like the long standing Pulsar design? The bollard pier you had for display, I take it was just to show the mount and not one to use?

Well quite something indeed, thanks for the heads up. A live launch, pass overhead and watched satellites launching, amazing sight for now... but of course another batch of the darned things!

So looking at other Piers, the Pulsar one. @FLO shows a picture with a solid top, Pulsar show one with a hole, which is the present version? FLO picture

Thanks Fozzie, hope the cloud keeps away, have a thin area creeping in from the West. Hope to catch a glimpse.

Thanks Jeremy and your colleagues, enjoyed it and has whetted the appetite. It did not go over my head, so thanks for where it was pitched. I will have a read on the BAA section.

No can do the Zoom option as banned from it via work and my machine is used for work too. So will be the YouTube option for me.

Well, I have moved from a possible customer to the we will call you before the end of the week for your order.... 🤞

That certainly looks wrong to me Stu. But if it is @michael.h.f.wilkinson, please report in.

Thanks for the response, good luck with it tonight. Wonderful stuff at level pitched. I will tune in later, looking forward to it.

Will your presentation be at high level or something that a novice to variable stars can understand Jeremy, not asking with any bias, just have no idea where it will be pitched?

A good one last night, but could have been a sporadic one of course. Straight through Ursa Major as I was waiting for the Starlinks to go through last night.

Nice upgrade Michael, certainly better than the other set you had. As you say the basic drive set leaves quality behind price and is very liable to damage, I had one of those on a GP2 a few years back. The synscan does look better, but the housing does let it down.

Out of interest Peter, why the least used?

@mikeDnight, now that is a wooden box, room for growth over above my present case. Tempting, but......

The 3mm bit came from here... Thanks for the reply

So did you get a box @AdeKing ?

50mm is in and concreted in, see my Observing Area thread. The duct is 1.5m long from pier location (yet to be built) and cupboard for power, eyepieces, laptop, tea mug etc.

Looking great, that coop was an inspiration. A question on your pier if I might, is the former tube plastic or steel pipe? and Did the 3mm out issue get resolved ok?

I like the look of the EQ6-R myself.

Pour concrete where Brian? Fully agree on the need for a solid foundation for any structure, my expectation is for 600 x 600 x 600-900 deep. But what to put above ground is my quandary based as much on overall cost as the final solid solution.

I always did from the day it got put down for the kids pool, just had to bide my time..... that was many, many years ago and was used for a scope from about 2015 or so. The Observing Pad is a slow burn process, mainly due to finances and trying to finish the house projects that go on and on.

Progress continues. 50mm duct in with 2 x 135 bends to make a long slow bend up into cupboard / observing office. Other end butted to middle of where pier will go, so leaves me flex in pier choice. Duct concreted into the pad up to the area marked for pier footing. Cupboard / observing office now has a concreted floor, which help anchor the structure even more. Now just needs to be left to cure for a few days. I had some good news in that my local woodyard, who I use often and have been shut are opening next week for phone based orders, delivered to driveway with contactless transaction, so perhaps some cladding and door timber can be arranged after all............ to be continued

I ordered my set on the 9th from Springer, so far only an invoice and no delivery or tracking notifications.

Looking forward to my set arriving, I think I purchased my set a day after yourself John, so fingers crossed they arrive soon. Sadly just yet another copy invoice sent from Springer, so far no shipping details. Clearly direct from Springer was not such a wise move.