Thank you Rod for the update on the clearly well-made structure in India.
The height of the structure should certainly give some excellent views.
" I would like to move my Zeiss for better seeing but in the UK nowhere is safe anymore, I moved to a small village to get good skies fifteen years ago and built the observatory for my Zeiss, since then I have been sounded by houses and LED street lights
" you have said :-
From a safe point of view, the need to alarm observatories and insure against theft, is likely becoming more of an issue in the U.K. and the unnecessary increase in both housing and light-pollution, is certainly encroaching on us being able to see the night skies compared to over 30-years ago, which at least doesn't affect Solar and Lunar views - where a clear line of site is available.
Unfortunately even now with the (so often) councils switching-off some street-lighting after around midnight, there appear to be many householders who are now using exterior-lighting, both badly-designed and very-badly angled causing unnecessary flood-light pollution. Only a little thought is required to stop those householders from imposing their pollution on others, but noise and other pollutions is something that will only get worse - unless sufficient legal-action can and will be taken against those issuers...
The downside of powerful LED lighting is a large cause of the problem, due to its' miniscule running costs, allowing all-night switch-on's...
Cheers
Terry