RMA's Mobile Godzilla - 17.5 Telescope

Godzilla was designed and built by Gayle Riggsbee for the Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club.  The telescope is built on a former U-Haul trailer frame highly modified by Gayle to hold the Split-ring style mount. The telescope sports an RA drive powered by AC, a pneumatic RA/Dec lock, onboard air tank, ladder, and a rotating upper cage assembly so the eyepiece can be rotated to a comfortable position. 

The Roper Mountain Astronomers purchased Godzilla from the CAAC when that club decided to build a 24" telescope. Godzilla has won national awards for design at Stellafane, and the acclaim of students and teachers wherever it is used for outreach programs.