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Old 09-01-2017, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by sil View Post
or bird poo?

but yeah, good solution

have you added a switch for the retracting roof to trip to turn off any lighting once its opened? (ie in case you forget or computer automation fails?like a momentary on switch as a stopper so lights cant be turned on at all with roof fully opened? I'm so jealous at you guys with your obs
Perhaps surprisingly I've never had an issue with birds (on my existing AAG Cloudwatcher that has been up there for years). Every 6-12 months I randomly remember to brush cobwebs off it etc.

Lighting - no integration with lighting. There's not the need, the lights are never turned on in the observatory except on rare occasions I'm in there, and then I turn them off when I leave.
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