As most astronomers find out sooner or later, time spent setting up your telescope is wasted observing time.  The frustrations of clouds rolling in just as you finish setting up, or missing the object you planned to observe, amongst other issues, lead many astronomers to want their own observatory.  Well, I’m no different.  As a result I’ve decided to do a feasibility study for the construction of a Home Observatory in my back garden. 

I did a quick internet search at work in my lunch break for “home observatory” to get some ideas of what people have already done and the first link Google returns is this one; plenty of links to other astronomer’s observatories.  Most seem to be the roll-off roof design; I guess for good reason.  A couple of people at my local astronomy society have a roll-off roof observatory too. 

So, on with the feasibility study.  I will be documenting the project so other people can hopefully learn from my experience.

Until the next post… Clear Skies!

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