30 second Tour of the Observatory Movie

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Just downloaded the movie..... that observatory is HUGE!!!

what a stunning effort, looks like a professional one just waiting for NASA to turn up.........

[GrahamL]

..looks big enough to live in .

[Shawn]

Thankyou all , has indeed been a labour of love, with a lot of help and advice from folk like yourselves along the way..

Cheers

Shawn

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[netwolf]

Well done, looks nice and big. The layout with control room is great, no messy cables in this design. I am assuming the cables are passed through the floor to the control room. Are you using the space bellow the telescope as a storage space or is it sealed off?

Regards

[Tamtarn]

That's one Fantastic Observatory Shawn.

Great layout to suit all your needs.

Well done

[Ric]

Wonderful job Shawn, mission control looks great with those glass panels.

The ultimate inner sanctum.

Cheers

[Shawn]

Thankyou All. And Fahim , yes all the cabling goes under the false floor, and yes its used for a storage area for infrequent use stuff and cartons for scope bits and the like, although the concrete section of the pier has a large triangulated footprint under there, so there is not a whole heap of space left, the pier block I guestimate at around 5 tonnes...with steel triangulation to the corners of the insulated pier pad, I should have taken a pic of it...

Thanks All

Shawn

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[Shawn]

Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep

Great stuff Shawn! Stunning effort!
I hope that theres going to be an OPENING BBQ to go with that!

So you're an hour or so inland from Cairns? Talk about a BOX SEAT to the 2012 Total Solar Eclipse!

Great Vid!

Yes Im in the throws of organising the official opening day BBQ, have to make sure its cloudy though. so nobody has the urge to play with the scope...

S

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow, fantastic!

How tall is that pier?

[Shawn]

Thanks Mike , its 1.7 meters to the bend, but at 17S the forks sit fairly flat obviously , for the most part it puts all the bits at about eye level for a bloke of 5 , 10 Only when getting down for things like that rotten comet I cant quite do, I need a single step.. I have a thing against stooping....

Cheers Mate

Shawn

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