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[syxbach]

ok, looks like 30% increase compared to the listed price, much better than the covid time. During the covid time, mine was almost 2 times higher than listed price.

 

I hope they can travel to TX. Thanks for the information. 

 

Yuexiao 

The price on the website is the bare observatory without piers, any extra wiring, a roof motor, etc.

For my 11.5x15.5 there was an up charge of $2100 for materials price increase. There is also a charge for travel depending on how far they’re coming to build your observatory ($1080 for me in Georgia). From what Scott told me, they’re only doing builds within about one day’s drive of home for them in Ohio these days; no more west coast builds. I also bought two piers, the roof motor, the roof motor relay board to integrate it with my Dragonfly, and some extra wiring/lighting.

[sheepofblue]

The new place should be not bad for them, just off I65.  Cincinnati is about 5 hours I think.  Great info for general planning (house first).  Thanks again.

[KGoodwin]

Just to complete the story, here's first light from the June new moon.  Certainly a result I could not have gotten in around 10 hours from my light polluted back yard!

 

See it on AstroBin