Barry's home-made observatory

[bloodhound31]

Hi from Canberra!
I have built a DIY home observatory from mostly recycled materials. I have also built a website to share the experience with anyone thinking of doing the same, so please, have a gander at it and enjoy!

Cheers!

Barry from Canberra.:cool:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~armstead

or google search "barry's home made observatory."

[tfoster]

That is SO cool! I want one in my backyard!!

[bloodhound31]

Well, I got the steel bent up and I've been head down, bum up all day. I'm feeling sore now.

Got my fibreglass too! I'll have to get the old man around tomorrow with the backhoe, so I can take the dome off, place it on the new ring and fibreglass the lot!!

Soooo excited!!!!

Baz

http://members.iinet.net.au/~a rmst...ort%20ring.htm

[Eoanthropus Dawsoni]

I love your dome.

[bloodhound31]

Well, the dome is all fibreglassed and today I got the flowcoat and applied it. The dome looks a million bucks now!

Unfortunately Ive gone and left my camera at work, so on monday I will take some pics and post the new look on my site for you all to see!

Until then....

Barrys home made observatory

http://members.iinet.net.au/~armstead

[bloodhound31]

All done on Saturday and had a thunderstorm to test it. No leaks!

Baz.

[Eoanthropus Dawsoni]

That is quite impressive.

[olympus_mons]

Hi Baz,
Glad to see your observatory completed!

You have done a fantastic job on it's design and construction. You must be very pleased with the end results.

Kind Regards and Clear Skies to all!
Stewart Waters
http://tinyurl.com/yl23wl

[bloodhound31]

Thanks Stewart and Dawsoni. I have just had the busiest of weekends inside the dome. Constructed a reinforced pier of thick chipboard and re-enforcing steel frame inside, Welded it to the bolts hanging out of the cubic metre of subterranean cement I have there. Then I mixed concrete bucket by bucket to fill up a 7 foot tall by one foot square pillar from the top. That had set by this morning so then I painted the entire contents of the dome and its furnishings, dressed off the hole in the floor with a spaced skirt around the pier, mounted a top plate to the pier and installed the wedge. Shoveled the remaining half a cubic metre of gravel mix off the truck at my neighbors place. Cleaned up all tools, washed the truck and vaccumed the observatory.

Then settled down to eat a cold dinner and the last two inches of flat warm beer in the longneck sitting beside my PC from last night.

I'm Knackered. Going back to work tomorrow for a rest.

Baz.

[glasspusher]

Very nice job. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that works like a mad man to complete a project for this hobby. It is really nice to have an observatory. Just think, no more packing things in and out of the house.

[dano126]

I see that the post is over a year old, have clicked on links to Barry's homemade observatory only to sent to a dead end. Are there any other links to see the construction of the observatory?
Thanks,
dano

[Siguy]

I see that the post is over a year old, have clicked on links to Barry's homemade observatory only to sent to a dead end. Are there any other links to see the construction of the observatory?
Thanks,
dano
http://www.asignobservatory.com/