Category Archives: Astronomy

Pace has slowed a little of late, but I’ve kept things moving forward even if I haven’t been doing that much. Because it gets quite warm inside the observatory when it’s sunny, I installed a 100mm vent in the northern … Continue reading →

The last week has mostly been one of flooring. I finished off the foam tiles around the last pier, taking a huge amount of time just to make sure I didn’t get things wrong and varnished the floor in the … Continue reading →

A little delayed, the foam floor tiles for the scope room arrived today. I couldn’t just leave them sitting there so I spent a good half hour just playing with arrangements to try to minimise the cuts around the piers. … Continue reading →

Gorgeous day today, though it started a little chilly despite the sunshine. I mowed around the observatory and did some prep work for laying the foam tiles, and as suggested by other observatory builders used some off-cuts of EPDM to … Continue reading →

Allen bolts for fixing down the pier adapters arrived today, so this evening I got on with fitting those to the tops of the piers and putting the mounts back in place. There’s probably no reason why I couldn’t go … Continue reading →

Nothing too exciting today. I swept the observatory floor, then hoovered, then hoovered again, and then worked barefoot to get about 80% of the scope room floor sealed with a coat of varnish this evening. It actually went very quickly. … Continue reading →

Like yesterday, not a huge amount of progress today — spent much of the day mowing grass and visiting some of my bees at a local farm. I did however manage to get the final piece of cladding onto the … Continue reading →

Didn’t get much done today as I had other things to be doing, but had an hour or so this afternoon that allowed me to get the cladding on three sides of the last pier. I’ll be very pleased if … Continue reading →