Homemade portable pier

[Jonk]

A friend of mine, who over the years has made his own 8" goto reflecting scope, on a custom EQ fork mount, and contributed massively to the Hampshire Astronomy Group observatory in Clanfield, is making a custom portable pier for his Intes-Micro Alter D6 mount.

He's recently become interested in astrophotography and needed something for the mount to go on, and likes making things himself. His custom scope cannot be easily balance adjusted for cameras / extras.

It's not complete as needs finishing / painting / powder coating etc. and I don't know the total cost at the moment, but I'll post more photos once complete.

I know a few of you will be interested, so please feel free to comment.

[Jonk]

An update - here are some of the latest photos of the pier, now it's complete.

You can also see the 8" home made reflector. Very clever guy.

[stuy]

Old post this but what a lovely job he has done I’d buy one for sure 👍

[Jonk]

Well, he now has a dome and fixed pier so this might actually be superfluous now.

I’ll ask him when I next speak to him.