Mornin, Yall. After getting a small break in the clouds we went back out to examine our work and rethink our situation.
The wife doesnt think Ill be comfortable in what weve built. She knows im pretty clumsy, and making things tight for me could be problematic, or at the worst expensive and damaging.
She thinks we can start where the north side post-box ends and keep going north with more posts, like put them where the next 2x8 floor joist would go and just keep going as much as we want. Then we could just make our roof as long as weve built and boom, its done.
BYO makes a 15'x6" observatory, and since im not as smart as her, I cant see the problem in turning a started 11x6, into a 15x6.
Weve found a lumber place downtown called Lyon's Lumber that says they carry all sizes and whatever the 'you can do it, we can help' people stock, they stock it and much more since lumber is all they do.
Hmm...
were having all sorts of crazy ideas about how we could do both dob viewing and imaging from the same place, like I took my CatsPerch Pro chair and moved it as high as I could comfortably sit and was at least a foot or two above my focuser on the dob, showing us that it could be raised and allow me to still sit and view.
What if we made it bigger, like the 15'x6" design, and made a raised concrete platform for my dob, but also raised a concrete base around it so Im not standing on a stool?
Why couldnt I do that? We measured the CatsPerch Pro chair opened up and it was about 3'x3".
These are just some of the thoughts were having which is slowing down our build. Everything was cut and dry until we saw it start coming together, and suddenly everything changed.
Previous
Index
Next
Flat
Re: WidowMaker's observatory project under way!
Edit
Reply
Quote
