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1965healey
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 06/23/07
Posts: 2844
Loc: San Antonio, TX
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Re: New build - advice please
07/02/08 03:02 PM
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Only thing I can see may be the short sidewalls, leaves you a rather narrow track of usable space when you consider that the roof and trusses have to clear the scopes and mounts. Short walls work great for dobs since their "feet and body" are close to the ground. My CG5-GT with a pier extension on it and an 80mm short tube on it stands about 5'6"' tall when I park it with the OTA horizontal to the ground. Without the pier extension I'd be sitting on the floor to view objects at zenith. If you want to leave your mount polar aligned and not have to remove the OTA to close the roof a wall height of about 6' will be pretty good. Always build NOW for the future if you can, it'll be cheaper to do it once rather than to do it over. 
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