The steel pier has worked well, but the telescope needed to be uncovered and set up prior to use and at the end of the night the setup needed to be dismantled and covered up. Even though this was a big improvement over storing the telescope indoors and carrying it in and out and polar aligning it in addition to the setup needed with the pier, leaving the telescope all set up would be ideal. I decided I needed either a roll off shed or a dome. After looking at all the options I decided on the SkyShed pod (Personal Observatory Dome).

		The original plan was to put the POD in the far rear corner of the yard, however the pier was already in the ground near the house. There was enough space in the current location to fit the POD so I decided to make a portable floor and do a first installation in the current location of the pier. Having the POD next to the house also makes getting used to the setup easy. (Pier was later installed in front of bird feeder)
		Delivery day. The boxes were way to big for UPS or FEDEX...
		The first two of the four boxes come off the truck.
		Before the POD can be assembled, a floor needed to be built. I put the pier in an adjustable slot in the floor so the floor could be moved to optimize the offset from center.
		To determine the maximum offset that will allow for the most visible sky at the zenith while not being offset so much that the scope hits the POD when closed, a mechanical diagram in the same scale was overlaid on the floor picture.  In this location the floor can only offset 9.5 inches due to the landscape border behind it. The floor is portable so when the POD is moved an additional offset will be used as there is still room before hitting the POD.
		Now that the floor is done, time to start putting together the dome halves.
		The walls are assembled on the finished floor. The scope cover will be removed once the dome is installed.
		The POD is finished, shown here closed
		Finished dome open showing uncovered scope.
		Looking in thru the POD door you can see the equipment and some space for me to sit. All cables have been routed along the floor and are tie wrapped to the pier on one side and in water tight containers on the other side. All that is removed at the end of the night is the laptop PCs.
		Looking in over the wall you can see the 2 laptop PC's, one is used to control the guiding camera and the other runs the imaging camera and telescope control software. I can either sit in the POD during the imaging or connect to both PC's from in the house via remote desktop.