Homemade Pier Extension Completed
I finished my homemade telescope pier extension project today and it seems to be working as planned. There isn't a whole lot in life that is more satisfying than designing something in sketches in a notebook, then building each individual part yourself, then assembling all the parts and finding that everything works just as designed and planned! My primary problem that prompted this project was that my longer telescopes would hit the tripod legs when viewing almost straight upward. Also a factor in my decision is that my astronomy tripod isn't tall enough for my longer refractor telescopes which meant I would need to sit down very low on the ground to see into the eyepiece. I needed a pier extension to raise the mount and telescope higher. Some may ask why I don't just extend the legs fully to gain some overall height but this is a bad idea for two reasons. First, it will do nothing for me to resolve the telescope colliding with the tripod legs. And next, the more yo