BigMisterP

shower tent? 30 quid, on a lawn, in garden with trees, and green - to blue, fairy unobtrusive. Put that over the 365 cover. Plus a couple fo LogiCircle cameras, already present to cover the garden, but, synchronicity, also looking over the pier, and another under the covers

I have some, they can get slippy tho'

how about the rubber grids that you can get, rather than plastic, set an ground level, and let the grass grow through fair unobtrusive, you can run the lawn mower over as well to see lawn looking good Paving stone often, in my experience in central belt, get a moss which gets slipped - products to clean usually are not life enhancing for grass. While you are doing, how about digging down, at least under the patch, and put drainage in? it may help generally.

I go north - Orkney has plenty of places

Just to confirm, The winch will let the cable down, but, the roof may need manual "assistance"to open? But, closing is fine as the winch deals with it. Do you have sensors to stop to winch pulling too far, or did you just measure what you needed.

I have limited, albeit not recent, experience with imaging. An existing fixed pier is available, as are a number of OTAs including Celestron C8 SCT and Skywatcher 10" newtonian, as are CGEM-DX (tuned by DarkFrame) and an AVX. This is a pre-retirement purchase, so, I am looking for something I will not need to consider upgrading in the reasonable far future. An observatory is in planing stages, well, I am comparing dome vs ROR, with a preference for the latter. I have a budget that would allow purchase of the iOptron CEM120 C2 https://www.firstlightoptics.com/ioptron-mounts/ioptron-cem120-ec2-center-balanced-equatorial-goto-mount-with-ra-and-dec-encoders.html Am looking for equivalents, or better, in the price range.

I'm going to stick with my Equinox ED80 Pro - not seeing anything here that convinces me otherwise... yet

Do yourself a favour - listen to these with ratings Main Sequence level and above, they have years of experience with a wide range of equipment, and really know what they are talking about..

I have to ask Praised by who, if no-one knows anything about it?:P Although, the English is a bit flaky... but I want one