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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. |