Placing a foundation and making a pier for the FSQ-DDM setup.

After receiving my ASA DDM85 i have been using the mount on my Losmandy G-11 tripod. A stable and tough tripod, but with the polar procedure of the DDM85 it will be more convinient to use a permanent setup.

My father and I decided to work on a plan to make a more stable and permanent platform, remote control of the setup was an important goal to keep in mind. After some thinking we came up with a 1x1x0.5 meter concrete foundation, that is a lot of concrete but better be sure! For the pier we took a 125mm wide pipe with a 8mm wall thickness welded to a 10mm thick steelplate.

After pooring the concrete and placing the pier i added a workstation in the barn to remote control the setup, this was done so that when my reserved place on a remote location would become availble that i could copy the setup that i've been testing at home.