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starlooker

13-09-2009, 10:53 PM

2 parts to this question.

What is the biggest home observatory:

1. Money can buy
2. In the world

When I mean "home", I mean on a private property ie. backyard, and owned solely by the property owner.

If any one of the forumites actually think they own the biggest home observatory, then show us your pics to earn bragging rights.

:thumbsup:

EDIT: Show us your pics anyway, regardless of the size of the observatory. Home observatories are so COOL. :eyepop:

renormalised

13-09-2009, 11:09 PM

Well, I know of a guy in the US that has a 32" EQ mounted scope built into his home...here (http://www.atmob.org/gallery/showimage.php?id=573), and here (http://www.atmob.org/gallery/showimage.php?id=572)

If you were lucky enough to win a good lotto, well the sky's the limit. You can pick up a 40" OSG RC scope for $1-2million AUD. An OMI CC10 (40" classical cassegrain design) will set you back $460K USD (about $520K AUD, base price). Just depends on how much you want to spend:D

starlooker

13-09-2009, 11:26 PM

Holy carp! That's fricken enormous! :thumbsup:

coldspace

14-09-2009, 07:46 AM

Check out how small the finder scopes are ontop:P.

Matt.

lacad01

14-09-2009, 08:42 AM

Interesting clips on the construction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXMHASJquV4

AstralTraveller

14-09-2009, 09:55 AM

Boston isn't exactly known for its clear dark skies. You'd think if he has that sort of money he'd relocate to somewhere better like Arizona or Hawaii, or a short drive from my place ;).

renormalised

14-09-2009, 10:30 AM

I was thinking the same thing, actually:P:D

I have just the spot in the backyard:D

Jen

14-09-2009, 11:14 AM

:eyepop: :eyepop::eyepop: Jen goes and gets a lotto ticket this week :question:

renormalised

14-09-2009, 01:14 PM

Just did a little trawling and found this....LAT group 70 (http://group70.org/)

70"!!!!:eyepop::eyepop::eyepop: