The Dutch Observatory

June 4, 2010 on 7:09 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

It has been a few weeks since my last image session.  Various reasons: Clouds, Rain and……. being busy building my observatory.  The goal was to make a transportable building that we could disassemble if needed if we move.  So the construction had several requirements that a normal observatory construction does not have to consider.  I elected the roll-off roof design, which I felt is the easiest to build and operate.  Today is the first time where everything was lined up and ready to checkout how the roof rools off.  Because the rail stops were not installed yet, and it started raining (again), I rolled it only back a foot or so.  I needed only one finger to do this   So I am pretty happy so far.  Still a lot to do, but check out the gallery of what’s done so far.  Click here for “A dream comes true” gallery.