With light evenings and rain through April and May, the scope hasn’t ventured outside for some time now. This has given me time to think and to appreciate clear evenings when they do occur.

I’ve decided not to build an EQ Platform or other device that would allow me to track with the dobsonian, instead I’m going to take the plunge and invest in an EQ-6 Pro Equatorial Mount and add the dobsonian mount to my wood pile.

Having the EQ-6 Pro will allow me to initially keep planets in the field of view to get more frames with planetary imaging, but this will also allow me to look into long exposure mods to allow me to start catching the elusive deep sky objects. By getting it now I’ll have a few months to familliarize myself with it before the evenings start to shorten and dark nights are with us again.

I’ll post images when I get around to making the purchase and will document the process for those of you who are also looking at re-mounting your dobsonian scope.