Thanks so much everyone for your replies and the well wishes, it's been a fun journey and yes, I have felt the love from many of you, who have been following the progress, it's been great to share it with all of you
and Alex, that's a good way of putting it, you are right, I had to maintain the belief, through what at times was some real trepidation and nerves
and Greg, along with MBJ's Placidus Observatory at Euchareena, your wonderful Bigga Observatory has been aspirational and inspirational for me, for a number of years now
Once I have the capabilities of the new observatory up to where they could be and we (ever) eventually start enjoying the next El Nino
, it will be gang busters
For those interested, I've added a map to show the relative locations and height of my last observatory in relation to Eagleview and Canberra.
Mike