Patrick, I doubt that will make it Friday, but Saturday remains a possibility as of now. I still haven't received my aluminum case for transporting the equatorial head. It is supposed to be here tomorrow. So if I can install the die-cut foam and otherwise put together some kind of transportation procedure by then, I could make it Saturday, stay tuned. This is a LOT more gear to haul around than my old "little" equatorial mount, or a Dob. I put the 100mm ED on there last night with WO 2" enhanced diagonal and my UO 40mm 7/70 ep (some 30 years old!). The mount was just slewing it's little heart out and never skipped a beat. A 4" refractor isn't even close to being a test for this mount. I'm going to mount the 80mm and the 100mm side-by-side as soon as I can buy the tandem adapter. On 5/13/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Hey Chuck, will you be bringing it to either/both of the SPOC open houses this weekend?