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Originally Posted by glend
That brings up an interesting side question; What strange accessories do you have in your observatory?
For example: Do you have a TV in the observatory? A Lazy Boy chair? a fridge? A coffee machine?  |
A radio/mp3/multimedia device is a must! Nothing better than listening to music or just AM radio mid-dawn. They have a great quiz on ABC radio most nights.
It is a good distraction and keeps you awake if you are babysitting the scope and growing tired.
Also, I use one of the kid's megasketchers mounted on the dome wall as a way of quickly
jotting something important down, the magnetic pen never gets lost! It is tied to the Msketcher
with a string!
As you can see from the following pic, I have put graffiti on my own dome wall, mainly important stuff like bayer matrix data and pixel sizes, or webcam settings that worked!. I bet they have similar graffiti on Keck...NOT!
I also have several lights, all controlled by UHF remote, red safelight, main dome lights and under desk and over keyboard red lights.
The multi button remote from all of these lights sits next to the
illuminated keyboard, which has a dimmer on it as well.
A bit of side light comes out of each end of this kb and illuminates the remote...so I never lose the remote!
One thing I would also suggest in hindsight, is having a lip on all desks to stop pens, eyepieces, screwdrivers all rolling off the desk and on the floor.
I must have lost count of the number of times I have knocked something like the flyspray
can with my coat and it hits the floor in the deadly quiet night, sounding like a metal rubbish tin dropping in a library!
got a photo perhaps..?
....hmmmm? better remedy that, don't need ice with the Canberra winter on it's way and in summer I just drink it neat 
