Telescope Pier Success
I'm going to keep this short and sweet because I am feeling so lousy. The past few days have been generally lousy as far as my health goes. I still managed to get a few little things accomplished over the past few days. What I accomplished should have been accomplished in a few hours but it required a few days for me to get this done considering how I was (am) feeling. Anyway, the telescope pier project is now a success! Here is a photo of the telescope pier doing its thing around lunchtime today... This morning, I assembled the mount leveling adapter which is the white metal part on top of the wooden pier... And, a closer look at this newest part... In this photo, you can clearly see the polar alignment pin. This turned out to be an easy part to create contrary to what I expected. I did, however, need to file down one side of the top of this pin in order to make it fit into my telescope mount. The four bolts around the outside of this adapter make it v