The observatory described in this Instructable is called " Star Gully Observatory" (a joke, because I always wanted to call my planned big observatory " Starlight Basin Observatory"). Having spent many wonderful nights in my own small observatory, I see exactly what he meant.
di Cicco said he built his original small observatory as a stop-gap while he planned for a bigger one, but it worked so well he observed in it for nearly a decade. I was inspired by Dennis di Cicco's Doghouse Observatory, which he described in Sky & Telescope (June 2000, page 125). So I devised a plan to have a Tiny Observatory. Shoveling an observing area and setting up and tearing down the telescope in the cold was going to be a severe detriment to observing. I was, however, faced with a pressing problem: I like to observe, and in the Rocky Mountains there is a LOT of snow to contend with for much of the year. Like many amateurs, I dream of having a large spacious observatory (of the roll-off roof variety), but after a scan of my local building codes and looking at the permitting process, and after many long evenings of planning and working out costs in a spreadsheet, I decided a big lavish observatory was probably still many years in my future. There are as many ideas and implementations for observatories as there are amateurs who have built them. Some are spartan and utilitarian, and many are lavish with amenities and decorations. Some are built on housetops and some are built on stilts to see above trees. Many have roll-off roofs, so the observatory masquerades in the backyard as an ordinary shed. Many are classic domes that scream observatory when you see them.
If you browse amateur observatories on the internet, you know there are stunning examples. You can observe until you're so tired your eyes won't stay open, then you close the observatory up and you're in bed in less than 5 minutes. You can pop open the observatory and observe the Moon for 10 minutes before the kids go to bed just as easily as you can spend an entire Friday night observing the Cosmos, from dusk until dawn. Your telescope lives in the observatory, completely set-up and calibrated. More than anything else you can do, it makes using your telescope easy. 2166.If you're an amateur astronomer who loves spending time out in your backyard with your telescope, one of the easiest ways to increase your time under the stars is build an observatory for your telescope. Inscribed at the bottom of the mount is the following: JP7007 along with the complainants thumb printĭetectives are continuing their investigation at this time and wish for anyone who may have information to please contact the Barrie Police Service at 70 ext.Attached to this is a computer that controls the telescope.
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