• 16’x16’ Building
• - 8’x16’ Shed
• •- 8’x12’ Crawl space below Observatory  (wiring access and storage)
• •- 8’x16 Observatory (•8’x4’ Warm Room with storage above accessible from observatory, •8’x12 Observatory with roll off roof and 2 piers)

 

Plan

Base

Digging Footings

Footings & Peirs Poured Conrete

Wall Frames Going Up

Observatory Raised Floor

First Opened Notation

Front View

Front View

Side View

Side View

Rear View

Rear View

Rear View

Roller Dolley to Roof Joist Adapter Close Up

Roll Off Mechanism

Original Pair of Meade 12" LX 200 GPS Scopes

Original Pair of Meade 12" LX 200 GPS Scopes

Warm Room View

Hobbservatory Sign

Complete

Scope Upgrade

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Plan

Equipment

Some like visual observing, some like astrophotography & digital image processing

    ... the most enjoyable part of the hobby for me is trying new equipment ... so things change here pretty quickly here!

The Eyepiece Collection ... just in case I get the urge to take a peek

In the summer of 2010 I traded my CGE mount for a CGE PRO mount ... I now have that set up for use with interchangeable William Optics FLT-132 or C11 Carbon Fiber OTA

Pier 1 - Early in 2010 I picked up a Celestron CGE with interchangeable William Optics FLT-132 or C11 Carbon Fiber OTA

Pier 2 is outfitted with a simply William Optics EZ-Touch mount and nice 76mm APO Refracter.

The highly modified Celestron 14" (Carbon Fiber, Flocking, Fans, Locking Collar, etc), the 12.5" RC Astrograph, and the Paramount ME are all now located in remote control observatories in San Pedro de Atacama Chile.

In the beginning ... when I had no idea that this stuff was junk