https://chrisramsay.co.uk/series/astro-pier/Recent content in Astro Pier on Chris RamsayHugoen-gbSat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrisramsay.co.uk/posts/2020/01/astro-pier-part-one/Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://chrisramsay.co.uk/posts/2020/01/astro-pier-part-one/<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>This series of articles will chronicle the process of building a permanent astronomy telescope pier in my garden. A permanent pier makes the setting up process for an night of astrophotography or visual observing far less laborious. This is because the pier is already aligned with the celestial pole, via the North peg on top of the mount adapter. Power and network adapters are immediately to hand, removing the work of laying cables out from the shed and putting them away later after each observing or astrophotography session.</p>