Peter Shah Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 I love to see what fellow astronomers come up with when designing their observatories. This is my little telescope house its been standing for about 12 years now and housed many scopes. Originally the front shutter that had to be opened and closed manually, to be honest it wasn't that big of a deal. But as it evolved into a fully automated observatory I had to come up with a mechanism that would not only roll the roof back but would shut the front shutter too. So this is what i came up with. This shows my AG12 and my largest and most used scope. It operates using a garage door opener wired to a USB board linked to the PC....works really well. For added protection I have a cloud watcher for those changeable nights. Tweedledee, +Bino-viewer, philjay and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottletopburly Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Thats awesome peter ,well done Peter Shah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 That's marvellous and very quiet in operation. Was looking at that the other night on your Astropix website. Nice to hear the birds twittering. Bet you have loads of wildlife around there. ? Peter Shah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Shah Posted June 18, 2018 Author Share Posted June 18, 2018 50 minutes ago, Tweedledee said: That's marvellous and very quiet in operation. Was looking at that the other night on your Astropix website. Nice to hear the birds twittering. Bet you have loads of wildlife around there. ? Thanks Pete, The observatory has served well. My website is a bit rough and ready at the moment, I'm still learning on the web front. For some reason I cant seem to get the captions to show in the gallery, yet on the equipment page they seem to be there no problem. You certainly notice the wildlife while in the observatory with all manner of noises in the dark, Owls, badgers and who knows what else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Very neat Peter and I suppose water tight? Cheers Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Shah Posted June 19, 2018 Author Share Posted June 19, 2018 9 hours ago, Ron Clarke said: Very neat Peter and I suppose water tight? Cheers Ron Oh yes very weather proof...no leaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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