Hello all,

 

If anyone is interested in building their own observatory from scratch, learning about astrophotography, or trying their hand at a few astronomy related DIY projects, please say hello and have a bit of a look through my website. It is all free and there are no gimmicks. Put your credit card away, I don't want to see it! LOL

 

Big cheers,

 

Baz.

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A.S.I.G.N. Observatory

Canberra, Australia

http://www.asignobservatory.com

Looks interesting, but your link seems to be dead.

 

Cheers

Looks interesting, but your link seems to be dead.

 

Cheers

 

Sorry dude, I just checked too, the link is ok but the server is down . Have another go later.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Baz.

Awesome observatory, nice work.

 

Do you need much of a cooling-off period when you open the dome?

 

Is that a parking lot behind the dome? What kind of heat waves do you get from that direction?

 

What kind of light pollution do you have to deal with in the area in general?

 

What's your effective horizon like? It looks kinda tight with all those trees.

I usually open up the dome an hour before imaging. Winter is obviously better, being in Canberra with it's minus temperatures....

 

Not a parking lot, just the street. Heat from that direction is not a problem.

 

Light pollution in the burbs of Canberra is far better than that of Sydney, I can vouch for that!

 

The dome is placed in my front yard in a nominal position, considering the movement of the stars from east to west. I try to photograph things that are at least 30 degrees above the horizon if I can anyway. Any lower than that tends to introduce too many atmospheric anomalies.

Do my eyes deceive me or is that dome a tardis aswell? derderdermmerderum wooowoooweeehwehhhhwehherwehhh!

Thanks, bloodhound, that was interesting.

Do my eyes deceive me or is that dome a tardis aswell? derderdermmerderum wooowoooweeehwehhhhwehherwehhh!

But it's so small doctor. LOL

 

Nice work man, just wondering where you got your telescope?

I purchased it from a long since out of business telescope shop in Parramatta, Sydney. It came from Celestron in the U.S.