Telescope Mount Pier Extension
A s usual, whenever my health allows, I tend to be working on a few projects at the same time. At the moment, I'm working on making a couple of aperture masks for one of my telescopes, I'm doing some landscaping around the house, I'm making some small springtime repairs around the house as I come across them, I'm repairing the grill in our outdoor kitchen, and I'm designing and making a telescope mount pier extension. This particular blog entry is about the pier extension project thus far. Quite often, especially if I use one of my longer refractor telescopes but it is not limited to this one telescope, I find myself wishing I had a taller tripod for my telescope mount. Sometimes, even when sitting on a very low stool, I need to get my butt off the stool and sit on the ground because the eyepiece is closer to the ground than my eye in a sitting position. If I use my longest refractor telescope, the telescope will even hit the tripod legs when pointing at or ne