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Originally Posted by spiezzy
I totally agree with you Jim
I have a POD Observatory and it has its limits with the Zenith but I still love it very much .
before I purchased the POD ,at my old place I had a ROR obs and that was just perfect and added on a warm room off to the side and it was just so comfortable on those cold nights .
I had a TV all my computer gear serpent from the main imaging scope The ROR was quite simple to build and from memory only cost me around $1500
before we moved house I had the this full automated the person that purchased the house was a Astronomer him self .
but the Sirius Observatory has always appealed to me but was always just out of my price range for a new unit they are a beautiful Piece of engineering sad to see them go
cheers Pete
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Agreed mate. Oz does not have the population to allow astro businesses to flourish like in the US or UK, nor do they have the dark skies as we do, but then, my guess is by 2050 and certainly by 2100, there will be very little dark skies left in Oz due to CSG flares, pop. expansion and so forth. But with the closing of Sirius Observatories, someone sill fill the hole left. Personally, an ROR is the way to go if you have the space.