Category Archives: Observatory

A bit of an unsatisfying day. My intention was to remove all the screws holding down the rails for the roof and seal all the holes to stop water getting in, removing one of the rails that has leaked in … Continue reading →

Twilight is fading now and another check of the white LEDs suggests they’ll be quite adequate for the job, so I’ll look at getting another strip (it won’t need to be anywhere near as long this time) for the warm … Continue reading →

What a busy (and lovely) day it has been! Painting the scope room was first thing on the agenda.  I bought the paint earlier in the week.  I was looking for something reasonably dark for the scope room and having … Continue reading →

This evening I’ve had a bit of a “tidying up” session in the observatory. All the spare materials and tools have been moved to the warm room and the scope room is now completely empty and swept. Hoovered, even. That … Continue reading →

Needing a “proper” way to hold the rolling roof in place I had a hunt around and found these latches: I bought them from Amazon, but they seem to be pretty much everywhere. There are a number of different sizes … Continue reading →

I’ve had a little time before darkness falls during the evenings this week to make some more progress with the wall lining. All the channel for the LED strip lighting has been fitted into place (though I may well remove … Continue reading →

A little at a time over the last week I’ve been lining the internal walls of the observatory, often just a couple of pieces in the evening. That has allowed me to finish off the insulation in the internal wall … Continue reading →

Taking advantage of the later daylight now we’ve switched to BST, this evening the observatory has started to take on the appearance, if not the temperature, of a sauna 🙂 It is in fact quite chilly out there are the … Continue reading →

Seems a long time since my last “design” post (and indeed it is — nine months or thereabouts), but that’s largely because I’ve not had to think too much about what I was doing. Once the basic plan was decided … Continue reading →

Late last week I needed some timber from the builders’ merchant for another job, and to get them to deliver it I decided to order the ply for lining the internal walls. That wasn’t supposed to turn up until tomorrow, … Continue reading →