Re: Automated backyard observatory

On Tue, 24 May 2005 23:12:14 +0200, "md" <not given to avoid spam>
wrote:

>I am building a new house with plenty of backyard (my current backyard is very very small) and
>I am planning to build a small observatory in my new backyard, definately. I have been browsing
>the net and my conclusion was that many amateurs have observatories, including automated/remote
>control. I would love to have a small observatory, including computers, where I can spend my
>evenings studying the sky!

What's tricky is making a robotic observatory work from a long distance,
where you can't be there if a problem occurs. Doing it in your backyard
isn't hard, though. Probably the trickiest bit is deciding just how to
implement the control system, since there are a number of options.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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