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Steve Fisher
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Re: First night in a Home Dome
      07/05/09 10:36 PM Attachment (16 downloads)

This shot pretty much shows all of it reinstalled. You can see the windlass behind the scope. This opens and closes the shutter. You can see a shutter relay box, an azmuth wheel that detects the position of the dome and the home contact switches. Higher up in the dome are some end of travel swithches that stop the shutter when fully open or closed.

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* First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher 07/04/09 04:55 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome AlienFirstClass   07/05/09 02:51 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/05/09 10:33 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/05/09 10:36 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/05/09 10:41 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Scott K   07/05/09 11:09 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/05/09 11:27 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome JayinUT   07/06/09 11:35 AM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Rick Woods   07/06/09 03:45 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Bob Griffiths   07/06/09 05:55 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome tim53   07/06/09 06:12 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Rick Woods   07/06/09 06:21 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/06/09 08:19 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome bluestar   07/08/09 08:13 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Bob Myler   07/08/09 09:53 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Bob Griffiths   07/09/09 09:23 AM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/09/09 11:45 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/08/09 10:41 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome David Pavlich   07/06/09 04:49 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/04/09 04:56 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome JAT Observatory   07/04/09 06:26 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/04/09 07:13 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Pedestal   07/05/09 05:01 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome JAT Observatory   07/04/09 07:58 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/04/09 08:11 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome csa/montanaModerator   07/04/09 09:25 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/04/09 09:48 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome csa/montanaModerator   07/04/09 10:17 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Scott K   07/05/09 01:27 AM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Steve Fisher   07/05/09 12:33 PM
. * Re: First night in a Home Dome Starman27   07/05/09 02:40 PM

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