-- With Regards, Mel Bartels Programmer/Analyst, and amateur astronomer mailto: mbartels@efn.org homepage: http://www.efn.org/~mbartels How To Computerize A Dob: http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~mbartels/altaz/altaz.html
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- From: Gregory Edwards <edwards@crl.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:35:38 -0700
- Apparently-To: atm@shore.net
- Reply-To: Gregory Edwards <edwards@crl.com>
- Sender: owner-atm@shore.net
I am building a telescope mount on the second floor deck of my house. The telescope will be mounted above a 4'x4' cinderblock tower that goes down into the ground below. Between the top of the tower (U shaped, one side open) and the place where the bottom of the telescope mount will be is about 30cm of open space for underside of the upper deck. The tower is >>not<< connected to the upper deck at any point. I would like suggestions as to how to connect the top of the tower to the bottom of the mount. Sand filled columns? Wood 4x4s? What would be good here to reduce vibration and other problems? (and how do the vibration isolation pads that Orion and others sell work? Should they be part of this? Do they have a weight limit? (scope is a 20" f5 on a Dobson mount on top of an e platform). Thank you. Greg Edwards edwards@crl.com
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