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Originally Posted by mithrandir
How will you get the SDM up the stairs?
We were looking at a small property near Tamworth. Altitude 500m at the house and 580m at the back fence. To put in a proper obs we'd only have to grade a track up the hill and run water and power about 300m. Shame there's no work for either of us nearby, and the current job has a "4 days a week in the office" policy.
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Mithrandir,
I won't have the scope upstairs in the garage....too many thermal current issues.....I am not quite sure precisely what my wife had in mind, but it is getting closer to the Sirius Observatory I have in mind!
My issue is lights from neighbours. The other night while observing I had lights on in all directions. Some evenings I laugh at the absurdity of it, other nights I have been close to tears, especially if the seeing has been rock steady. Occasionally everyone's lights are off and I have some dark bliss. Having an observatory will mean I do not have to worry about blinding lights, and total loss of dark adaption at random. Nothing will make my skies intrinsically dark. Getting a really big scope has done the best I can to increase the depth of objects I can see from my place. An observatory will at least give me some consistency from night to night.