Visit my new Patreon Site!
Please visit my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/openastronomy! For many years I’ve been providing quality content to a very limited audience of astronomy clubs and online forums. However, I think there…
Build Day 17
Since it’s raining today and promises to rain for the next 5 days my focus has changed to working on the electronics package to run the Micro-Observatory (MO). I transferred…
Day 16 Build
Doors are cut and framed in (although not in this image) and the pier plate is aligned with North so the telescope can be polar aligned. Now all that’s needed…
Award for Outstanding Service
Thank you to the RASC Winnipeg Centre for awarding me the 2021 Award for Outstanding Service at the last meeting. I am pleased to be recognized! Some of the services…
Day 15 Build
The roof was trimmed, a gutter added on the S side to catch any runoff on the roof (it’s tilted S so solar panels can be mounted on it, which…
Day 14 Build
Fixed the installation of the motor so it is sideways to the rail to permit use of the magnets for limit switches. It works!
Day 13 Build
The steel roof is on! Still needs a trim on the S side and the eavestrough to carry water to the sides and not into the building when the roof…
Weatherstation
Big push to finish the roof of the observatory this weekend! As a digression I will need a weather station for the observatory and had originally intended to build my…
Planning for 2024
The total solar eclipse in 2024 is one of the last one visible in North America til 2043 so despite being optimistic I’ll make it to age 79 to see…