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Gaz,
It's great to see someone planning astronomy applications into their new home! Good on ya!
I may be misunderstanding what you suggest but if you mean to have the telescope inside the house but under a glass section of the roof so that it can see through thr roof, then i think you might have some complications.
The biggest problem (aside from the issues associated with additional glass the limited photons will need to travel through) would be the issue of how very dirty the roof/glass surface would get exposed to the element and this would without doubt adversely affect your viewing experience.
As Kev suggests, It may a etter option to consider either a dome o rperhaps an opening section of the rofspace but I suspect preferably, converting a shed or building a home made observatory in the backyard would be a better way to go. You can still control most if not all operation remotely (but it's not quite as simple as it first appears i think).
I like the original concept though: glass roof, telescope under it, always ready to operate with a link to the TV screen.
You would need a very large pane of glass in the roof i think and it would get very dirty. Might be ok for visual work (maybe) but probably best to aim for a setup outside.
cheers
frank
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