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Old 12-03-2012, 01:05 PM
LostBoyNZ (Graham Parker)
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Took the roof off today, plus the netting and such from two walls. Wow it was dusty!

Here's two photos. The roof will be on caster wheels, and tracks for it will go off in the direction of the second photo. I'll have them go further away from the Observatory so they'll get slightly less in the way of viewing, and I should get slightly more of a viewing angle. Also about 40 cm (16 inches) of the walls on both sides shown here will go with the roof.

So they'll be about 40 cm of wall attached to the roof, and the caster wheels will be under those. This is to try and get a better viewing angle range.

http://img.acianetmedia.com/i/aUZIA.jpg
http://img.acianetmedia.com/i/GSBvC.jpg

(the first shot is blurry because I took it through wire netting)

Love the chart? Thanks I'd love to offer it online or to other people, but it has custom data for where I live of course. Anyone good with programming could probably make it work though

That sounds like a good idea about the pier. I'll bolt an iron tripod (we have some iron available!) and bolt that down. As you say, I can always dig a hole and such later if it doesn't work out.

Yep the scope will be just a few inches under the roof, when it's resting at a 90 degree angle. When it's pointing up, it won't fit under the roof.

Ah, nothing wrong with cheap and nasty gear When you do get decent results out of it, it'll be even more impressive knowing what you did it with. That's great that you'll get to build an ob soon!
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