We took down the rest of the shed today.  Barely got done and loaded pieces onto a trailer we borrowed before we were hit by a fairly bad storm.  We made it okay to my friend’s house.  Yes, astronomy — what an adventure.

Today we took down about 90% of my friend’s shed… fairly easy but with lots of ant colonies and spider nests. We dropped off most of the pieces at the observatory site. Will need to borrow someone’s pickup to get the roof and floor, etc. My son helped in these pictures.

Haven’t posted in a while. Between Winter and some construction on the house, we haven’t had a chance to go out with the scope in a while. But that’s inspired me and some friends to build a ‘cheapo’ observatory on their property. We’ll be using a plastic shed (made by www.thinking-outside.com) which has a removable roof. I’ve just ordered a pier (35″ high) from www.durangoskies.com. The owner, Dave, was very helpful in working with me on the pier and fitting it to my Milburn wedge. Hopefully we’ll have it in 2 or 3 weeks. Sam’s Club used to sell the shed but they stopped selling it the day I was about to order it. Thankfully, another friend was willing to sell me his shed since he wants to upgrade his shed. We’ll be pouring a concrete foundation (probably 48″ down) for the pier. I’ll post more updates as the construction plans continue.