Thanks to the lathe- and other – skills of my friends, the adapter of the tripod to the EQ8 mount is completed and fully operational. What a delight!
“The Day After” and NGC7331 with his friends
After a full night of semi-automated imaging the scope stands in the sunlight and is in need of a comb to tidy up all the loose cables. The target was NGC7331 of which 6 hours of fotons were gathered.

A few days later I imaged the same object using the C11 and the F/7 reducer:
