Building Your Own Observatory Part 6
A trip to the local hardware shop resulted in some Cuprinol 5 Star Complete Wood Treatment which is used to impregnate the wood and act as…
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Building Your Own Observatory Part 5
The Observatory Roof The roof is basically made of two triangular side pieces separated on the “top” side by five 2-inch x3-inch cross-beams. Two other beams,…
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All the coach screws were removed and the three wall frames taken down. I lifted the floor and re-cut it so that it would fit within…
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Having installed the pier and leveled the top plate (as described in the previous article), I made sure that everything was rock solid and that I…
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Not According to Plan This is where I first went wrong. The widest tube I could find was 90mm aluminium piping. I sank this into concrete…
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If you own a telescope, you’re familiar with how long it takes to set up your scope for an observing session. How many times, though, have…
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By Tim Carr Even those people who know nothing about astronomy (and there are plenty of them, it would appear) have heard of Galileo and how…
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By Tim Carr If Nicholas of Cusa and Ulugh-Beg weren’t famous then this man certainly was, and still is. The “father of modern philosophy” and brilliant…
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By Tim Carr In 1676 a thirty-two year old astronomer from Denmark stood up in the Academy of Sciences in Paris and announced that he had…
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By Tim Carr The great Mongol empire was not noted for its scientific achievements and with good reason. But in 1428 Tamerlanes’ grandson Muhammed Targai Ulugh-Beg,…
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