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Originally Posted by RickJ
Sounds like the University of Nebraska They put a 16 Meade LX200 atop a parking garage. Every time a car goes up or down you can imagine what the image looks like. Since it is at the SW corner it wouldn't have been very costly to put it on its own foundation but that wasn't done, I don't know why -- money I suppose.
Rick
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Our setup did some of the right things when the building was constructed - girders running straight down to the foundation - but there is just too much mechanical coupling to the rest of the building. We even pick it up when trains go by 3/4 mile away. Don't get me started on the new parking lights installed last summer, right before I did a teachers' program. New fixtures which allow light to go upward at 30 degrees. Beats me who they hope to ticket on the rooftop.
There is one major advantage to the site, of course - ease of access, not only for students but for faculty to that events like this are more likely to be observed, not requiring hours of travel investment.