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Originally Posted by Amunous
I've never understood these styles of observatories. You can only look straight up. What happens if you want to look at something else in the other 160deg of sky you cant access from the obs?
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It's all a matter of balancing telescope and wall height. Get the scope up high enough to give good views over the walls but low enough to get out of the wind and lower LP. Anything below about 25 degrees is in the soup anyway and not worth viewing. That still gives you 130 degrees of sky in all directions if you plan and site it right.
With good North South horizons and if you are patient everything will pass overhead at some time of the year. That will be my situation, Eastern and Western Horizons are pretty bad, North is not great but I have good Southern skies and that is where it is all happening as far as I am concerned.
Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation and I know of worse.