My astronomy project:
Building an Observatory
(or a playhouse for big boys and girls)

Content:

1. Frame
2. Roof
3. Roof mechanics
4. Floor
   1. EQ6 mount inside observatory
   2. Floor
   3. Floor around pier

Note:
I take no responsibility or liability for what are written here, you use the information on your own risk!

Page IV.3: Floor around the pier

The observatory house shouldn't touch the pier because risk of introducing vibrations. But still I want it to be tight, don't want any bugs inside here!

Later there will be a soft rubber gasket around the pier.

Here how it looks when the floor is almost finished. The grey box behind will be a storage for the battery and computer. I will lower it later in level with the floor, just have to figure out where the optimum place is. On the right side under floor is the counterweight and motor to the roof and on the left side there is not much free space from the rock below.

Here you can see the proportion of the observatory, I'm 1.8 meters tall. I will not be in here when operate it, everything will be remote controlled from the house below.

No, I don't have a visit of R2D2. Now it's time to clean up in the observatory before I start to use it. I don't want to have a lot of dust on the optics.

My friend who is a carpenter told me that wood is a living material. Now I understood what he mean.

Interior light, 12 volt marine LED lamp, wonderful, now I can see what I'm doing inside the observatory in the night.