Ad Astra Observatory

Hi Jimbo.

Wayne

Jimbo S. Harris wrote:

type="cite">Hi Wayne,

I’m well underway on the installation of my SkyShed, and I couldn’t be
happier with the design. I’ve bonked my head on the door lintel a
couple of times, but I think that will be solved with paint and
padding. (:

The telescope is installed and drift-aligned; the first test photos
from the shed are sitting in my camera, waiting for the tender touch of
Photoshop. This is me, smiling a lot. (:

As far as the construction progress, last night the roll-off runners
and their cross-braces (I like to refer to this chunk as “the car” that
the roof is constructed upon) went up; that’s some heavy lifting! I
need to get the roll-off stops in place. By the way, I started with the
track flush against the “south” wall, and laid out 3 full-length chunks
of rail, which leaves a little over a foot at the “north” end of the
roll-off supports. I have 2 chunks of 24″ track left. If I were to try
to stick these up, they’d extend some 9″ past the end of the roll-off
supports. Should I cut these to fit? Am I looking for the track to be
basically flush with the end of the roll-off support? From the plans,
it looks like the

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