Yes we are now two "astro-van-lifers"
This is maybe of valuable interest for some of you.
Watercolor - in the middle of nowhere
Because of this pandemic period, I plan to change a little bit my way of life. With my wife we like to travel. In the past I had an old nice sailing boat, S.Y.Aquarellia. Today, with the old age coming, and the need to still organize more voyage, we decide to buy a new van. To combine travel, comfort, astronomy and painting, we choose the one you can see in the next images. No pub here I suppose…
About the comfort. With this van we can choose one of the two double beds, one in the van, the second one very comfortable is located in the roof tent, open electrically. We have heather, water, toilets, a shower (yes but outside) a full kitchen with 2 gas, a big fridge and a lot of storages. But on top of all of that, there is a special place initially made for skis.
Of course, I directly change the destination for my telescopes. I can store 2 small refractors plus a binocular, a 102/1000 and a 75/400 with an IOTA camera, an equatorial EQ4 mount with alpha 12V drive and a lot of material and papers for astro-sketching and watercolors, not only for astronomy - hé.
Our van decoration
Now our home is where we park it, and what a garden! We travel already 22 days and 22 nights, all off road, all out of lights. Of course, this is a sort of minimalist way of life, but after sailing more than five years on board of Aquarellia, that was not a real issue.
However, however, today … with the deep confinement here in France, we are blocked home, and this is not a mobile home !
But for the future I hope that this type of mobile astronomy is maybe positively influencing some of you.
I'll continue to post some other images here after soon.
Michel & Jannik
Edited by Aquarellia, 12 November 2020 - 10:31 AM.
