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Originally Posted by TraKtorman
I don't visit this site often, so I just stumbled across this "post". Fantastic result and welcome to the world of Bortle 2 skies. We are almost neighbours. My observatory is 30km to the NE of yours at 800m. Happy snaps attached.
Can you tell me what you are going to power your set up with. I am running 500w solar into 390AH gel batteries and a 2kw inverter. It works, but I am not super confident the batteries will go all night. Grateful for any personal experience on that you can share. Cheers Peter
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Hi Peter, yes you arent too far away at all and you have a mighty fine sounding setup yourself
If you want some fun, go back through this thread, you can find out everything I have and how I did it
..I am not operational yet..close though
The full set of construction photos, so far, is here:
https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/...ew_observatory
Mike