Jim's been doing research and ordered the CCD camera, auto focuser and filters, and some of the items are being custom made to eliminate clearance issues.
The CCD camera has arrived and Jim is bringing it when they come up on Tuesday, I can't wait! The auto focuser is still a week or two away. Jim also mentioned that he had printed the CCD camera manual, a large three ring binder with 12 tabs. He's thinking it might be complicated, so do I.
The steel pier and wedge is back at the storage building and will get sandblasted and painted tomorrow. I had hoped to be done with this job, but the humidity has been very high making this kind of work next to impossible.
The heated control room building design is now final, I've done a lot of image searching on goggle for unusual small building and my favorite came on the Dr. Seuss Playhouse search.
Here is the link where I found it,"The playhouse was designed and built by Rohan Goel, for his IB project and then raffled off"
I did build a small model to see if it scaled up larger without losing it's charm and it does work out just fine, construction will begin at the end of the month.
More planting this weekend when Pat was up, she has the grounds looking great, everything growing nicely including the grass and so far only 2 plants that our local deer, Bucky, just had to eat.
We are also looking into a set of tracks from American Track Truck for winter access to the observatory without spending half our lives plowing snow.
Here's a photo from their site, this system would make the 3 mile trip safe and warm.
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