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Old 30-03-2016, 05:40 PM
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Personally I don't like splitting the roof in the middle - leaves room for water leaks over the equipment and other complications. Like you later said rolling off one direction is easier for automation etc.

Wall height has many factors to consider:
- do you need to protect the equipment from wind or light?
- do you need the walls higher for security reasons?
- are other objects such as trees going to obstruct your horizon anyway, rendering a low wall height superficial?
- how high do you need your roof pitch for instrument clearance? For example do you want to have to park your telescope before closing the roof? This can have na impact on your wall height, depending on how much wall you include in your roof.

Your sketch how's the telescope quite high. I think the mai pivot point of mine is more in the 1.5m mark not 2.08m. That makes for quite a tall shed to not have the roof hit the equipment I'd think?
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