New Observatory - Project Objectives
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video we explore the main building objectives of the new observatory as well as the reason behind the project. We take a look at what needs to be improved over the old version as well as what can be reused between the two builds.
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I imagine you're getting close to being able to start on the observatory again, weather wise anyway.
I just found you're channel recently. I've been into astronomy for a while, living in florida and I grew up on the space coast, and my dad worked at NASA/KSC.
I should finally be able to get a telescope soon, very likely the Celestron 4se. I won't be doing an observatory setup, but I will probably be doing a semo remote setup. We have a lot of mature oak trees on and around our house. The best spot to setup is across the street in a narrow strip of field between the street and a fence owned by the local power company. I don't think I'll feel comfortable just leaving my scope there, but I will need to come up with a power source for it. I could go with a premade power tank, but may be able to get more out of a diy built setup. I just need to figure out what all I want lol.
One question I had, I dont recall if you covered this, but I was wondering why you went with the smaller 90mm OTA? Is it mostly logistics with being able to gave a smaller building or some other reason?
How's the planning/building going? I'm thinking about building one myself.
Hi FoFoAstro.
Great to see you back.
Your videos you made some time ago have inspired me to make my own observatory. Missing, though, is getting my pier into the ground. would not start here over the winter, I also have to below frost level, in Denmark, so it will be spring.
However, I have made a house where I roll the whole building away.
Then I can use both my telescope for photography and visually.
Once the building is rolled away, it can be used for observatory.
I am a trained carpenter, so it was an easy job.
Do you need insulation in the new house?
If you must then I have some advice I would like to share with you.
Yes or others who want to make an observatory themselves.
Greetings Esben from Denmark.
PS I have used google to translate as I can not write in English, But read and understand it
I'm not sure I understand the advantage to making it smaller, but I say that as a guy without any observatory at all, so... Is the objective just to increase your capability to hit targets near the horizon, which a shorter wall might help you achieve? Given the roll-off roof, it seems like making the building shorter would only marginally improve that situation. Looking forward to the build, though; you're the only one who seems to cover this sort of thing in depth!
Hi, The concept behind going smaller is that will be remote controlled. Don't need to be in the outside observatory itself. Apart from installing equipment! Er, and maintaining it - something I think that can get overlooked with some small builds.I guess these arrangements are a sort of hybrid observatory, part outside, part inside. In the warmth ......Cheers. BobUK.
@@bobuk5722 I guess it just sounds pretty painful to have to crawl around a smaller space or be exposed to the elements in the course of maintenance to me. Since, as with his current observatory, something larger could be operated remotely as well, I was trying to see if there was some other motive. Shorter walls for visibility? Specific maintenance tasks that are directly affected by the height?
Great question. Bob is correct! It is mostly for the ease of maintenance and construction on a smaller build and that I like things to be as small as possible while still doing the job. I'm someone who likes things simple and having too much building to worry about is more stress than anything else. Being able to reach every part of the building without a ladder sounds awesome as when things break, they will be really easy to fix.
You are correct though in that keeping it small will give me better views near the horizon, although that's not a primary motivator of the smaller size.
One other thing is cost. I really want more people to be able to enjoy having an observatory so keeping the cost down on this build is important.
I can certainly understand wanting to keep costs down. However, future proofing is also important. I'm already at the age where I don't bend as well as I used to. I'm also over six feet tall, so a four foot door makes me cringe to think about.
I guess I'm saying that in the long run, for me it makes more sense to build in a little more height in order to allow me to access things more easily...especially as I get older.
Anyway, I'm sure you've already thought things out and are building to what suits your needs...which is what is most important.
I look forward to seeing the progression of the build.
Cheers. 🙂
Hi, Two things I am very interested in. Roll off roof design and build for one. (or is that two?). The other is astrophotography processing. How to process the data having collected it. Cheers. BobUK.
Thanks Bob! That's great to know. I'll be sure to focus on those aspects when we get into the build.