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    Crisium 11 07 17 stitch DaveSmith

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    PAF moon FB

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    PAF moon FB

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    IMG0975 mikeyscope

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    IMG0975 mikeyscope

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    ISS composite astrokev

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    ISS composite astrokev

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    IMG1024 P 750x497 mikeyscope

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    MC117 MaCross

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    MC117 MaCross

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    Schets zon 15jun11 Roel

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    Schets zon 15jun11 Roel

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    M16 Pillars at F10

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    M16 Pillars at F10

    From the album: Pictures from C9.25

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    Great capture Ray, I was looking out for them but alas didnt see any this morning.
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    NGC6960 Veil nebula 2011

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    NGC6960 Veil nebula 2011

    From the album: POW

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    M13

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    M13
    Very nice result Andy, the MN190 is a superb tool for these Globs, picking out every star. There does seem to be a little pinching in the larger stars perhaps, hows the collimation?
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    The sliding bogey is on! Again with No.1 son at my right hand, we fix the galvanised roof panels (a gift from my neighbour) to the sliding roof. The panels are light, but they do make noise as the roof rolls back, and they attract condensation on dewy da
    That's the trouble with the big DeWalt batteries, they provide a LOT of torque, but they dont half make your arm ache after using them all day, especially if working on ladders!
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    Observatory (home build)

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    Just some pics of my little obsy, designed and built from scratch. The roof slides back over the warm room. Solid concrete floor slab with 1m³ separate block for pier. Construction from wooden frame clad outside with pressure treated shiplap, insulated warm room clad inside with ply. Pics will be added periodically.
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    Warm room with tiled floor and workstation. I control the setup from inside my house, all I need to do up here really is open the roof, and focus the telescope. Walls here are insulated and clad in 10mm plywood, which is painted.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    Looking towards the warm room.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    Full of junk! My main imaging rig is this MN190 on an EQ6, but the space in the obsy will allow me to add a longer tube in the future.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    Sun & Moon design wall art available from garden centres that stock Gardman products. Or else I might be able to send one. Guy at the back is a royal pain in the wotsit, his huge Lleylandii and bamboo are a real nuisance.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    The finished article. Roof felted and guttered into water butt. Solar lights that are operated by remote control come on to help light the doorway, and pathway past my fishpond. At some point I will get around to paving around the outside, I have th

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    Starting to come together now, my stupendously good FLO pier has pride of place. I mounted a scope on a whim, but there is a lot more still to do from this stage!

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    This picture shows the sliding roof fully retracted. The roof is fairly easy to slide, I wanted to keep the weight to a minimum. I pull it back at night one handed.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    Angle iron rails either side serve as a solid runner for the wheels. Hammerited in black. This shows the sliding roof almost in the home position.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

  22. Tim
    The sliding bogey is on! Again with No.1 son at my right hand, we fix the galvanised roof panels (a gift from my neighbour) to the sliding roof. The panels are light, but they do make noise as the roof rolls back, and they attract condensation on dewy da

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    From the entrance looking in. I didn't know it at this point, but the two braces for the roof will go on to serve as part of an ingenious heating solution for the warm room.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    Cladding nearly complete. This timber is pressure treated with a clear preservative, you pay a few pounds extra for this at the wood yard. Having a trade account there helps.

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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    Roof side rails on, shiplap going on, but most importantly, the supports for the rails. I used long coach bolts to fix the timber to the posts and studs, but in retrospect, threaded bar and nuts would have been better, I may swap those at some point. O

    From the album: Observatory (home build)

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