Part of building the observatory is making life easier through automating as much of the operations as possible. One important item to look at is the roof. How do you open and close it? How do you automate that process? Sure you can manually open the roof using a winch, cables, and pulleys. But instead,…

My builder took this video of him and his helper opening the roof of the observatory for the first time. I plan to add a motor in the future as well as automation. For now, I’ll just get some rope, pulleys, and a winch to open and close the roof with one person.

This post shows the construction of the observatory from walls going up, sheathing, roof, electrical & data cabling, siding, rails and the finished product. The final product. Just waiting for interior door to the warm room to be delivered. Then add wireless connectivity.

Today the first delivery of building materials was dropped off for my new observatory. Construction should start next week. Here is what the building will look like: Here is the floor plan: Thanks to NebulaPhotos aka Nico Carver for interviewing an architect in a video he released awhile back. I hired him to fix the…