DAVE AMENDALL Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I have no idea what happened to this structure...........Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Byatt Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 I understand Henry’s observatory known as “”The Beehive” was given to Lancing College in Sussex. I had the pleasure to visit his observatory in Sevenoaks in the 1970’s when he had virtually given up observing the moon and was concentrating on the Sun viewing with a spectrohelioscope in h-alpha. By a strange twist of fate my daughter now lives in his old home! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Just an observation, it took months of work to sort the secondhand 3m dome on our club observatory. So many things to put right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipper Billy Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 As a boat builder/repairer I can feel a retirement hobby business coming on...... 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenor Viol Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 The conversations in here around observatories have got me thinking.... I currently have major groundworks underway on my garden to terrace it due to a significant slope. That is already completed. The garden now has three levels: base is ground level, +900mm level and a +2,000mm level. The upper level is reasonably spacious. Unfortunately, view to SW - NW is blocked by trees and houses behind... The best place would probably be the small apron at the end of the first tier as it would give view to N and NE and reasonably unobstructed SE to S. I think the reality in this house is that it's difficult to justify the space that even a modest building would consume. The main part of the garden is roughly 13m x 13m, with a piece down the side which is about 20m long but it varies in width from about 3.5m to 2m. I am having electrical points installed outside, which is obviously a big help. I might opt for a permanent pier, which is an improvement on nothing. I was involved many years ago with a society's obs project: domes are a big challenge, especially if you have to have them made. I know of one silo based observatory as I've visited it. The person concerned is a farmer so it's full-sized with a floor added... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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