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Old 06-12-2006, 08:39 AM
Wazza
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Gerringong NSW Australia
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Wazza Observatory

Hi All,

The last few weeks I have been building a Roll of roof Observatory.
It is based around a 3m x 3m garden shed with a "Unistrut" internal structure to support the roll off roof.
The pier is a 250nb steel pipe 10mm wall thickness 1.6m long and is imbeded in concrete. The floor is a timber structure which is covered by yellow tongue board and secondhand carpet tiles.
The telescopes are an ED80 and an AOE 102 acromat on an EQ6 mount. They are mounted side by side on a Ken's Rings heavy duty mounting bar.
There is also enough room to have the 18"dob stored fully assembled and ready to roll out through the double doors to use.

I have just finished it to this basic operational stage and will be using the current full moon time to align the mount ready for the next dark and try for the first images.

Hopefully I have attached the images correctly to give you a view of the observatory.

Regards

Wazza
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