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Reged: 02/20/04
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Loc: Wisconsin
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Observatory chair?
07/02/08 07:13 PM
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Hey folks, for about a year now I've been using my regular observing chair in the dome. I'm limited to the 8 foot round building on my deck so moving around the scope is tight, (no stepout equipment bays). When opened (opens like an inverted V ie "^") the observing chair was awkward to use because it was so wide a lot of times I'd have to use it sideways. I trimmed the folding bar down so it doesn't open as wide and it's been just fine (had to adjust the seat angle though). This has worked out well, the only downside is moving it, I have to get up, reposition it. If I need to walk around the observatory I need to lift it out of the way.
I was thining of a rolling office chair that adjusts in height. I went to an office supply store and got one of those cheap-o ($39 bucks on sale) office chairs with the five roller legs. It has a gas piston to raise and lower but doesn't have near the travel as my observing chair. I haven't tried the office chair with visual yet to see if it comfortably reaches the binoviewers at all scope angles, but it sure beat the regular observing chair for rolling between the guider and the scope.
It got me to thinking... what do you folks use in your observatories?
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-Jim-
Happiness is a clear sky and a Denk II
old AP images and some new C14 Hyperstar images
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