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| Building my own observatory in my backyard and an overview of
the used equipment. |
| You can read more about it
here (Sorry, only in Dutch at this moment) |
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| Digging a hole of 80 x 80 x 80 cm for the pier foundation |
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| Preparing the concrete by adding water to the dry substance. |
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| The steel construction to put in the concrete |
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| Leveling the floor basic of the observatory |
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| The observatory in progress. |
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| My Roll-Off-Roof observatory opened and ready to use. |
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| Detail of how I connected the house to the rail support
construction. |
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| a view of the Roll-off system. |
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| Detail of the mechanism how the wheels are rolling in the rails. |
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| A lever to lift the roof from its walls. |
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| Making my own pier. |
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| My son is helping me by adding dry sand into the pier. |
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| I made the pier standing independent from the wooden floor. |
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| Side by side, C14 and Pentax SDUFII with Losmandy connection. |
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| A handy closet for storage and to put the laptop on. |
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| My portable setup: 10Micron GM2000QCI + TMB152 + ST10XME. |
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| The big 16 inch Hypergraph and some small guy looking at it. |
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| A closer look at the scope’s back with the focuser and
collimation adjustments screws. |
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| Awake at night and sleeping during the day. |
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| The permanent setup: Paramount ME + C14 + ST10XME. |
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| 10Micron GM2000QCI + TMB152 + STL11000 inside a Kendrick tent. |
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| My astro-buddy Arie took this action-picture of me. |
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| A view at the main mirror and lower tube part with in the centre
the secondary-focus corrector. |
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| The removable secondary mirror in holder with prime-focus
corrector (two lenses). |
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