Reports - 2012
Astronomy Benalla Meeting Presentations - Wednesday 16th June 2012
Presenter: Patrick Watson
So you want to build an observatory! One persons experience.
An observatory can be as elaborate:
Tycho Brahe’s Observatory - Uraniborg
- or as simple, as one desires.
Fully portable model
ThIs observatory was to consist of a telescope room, a ‘warm room’, and a rotatable dome. The warm room was fully
insulated. The telescope room was not insulated.
The building rested on concrete stumps. The pier base was a cubic meter of concrete inset 600mm below ground level.
Power was supplied, internal fit-out included power outlets and lighting. Both red and white lights were included.
The dome during assembly
11 inch Fork Mounted Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a Mitty Wedge
Warm room seen from the telescope room.
The completed observatory.
