[ATM] observatory

[Richard]

You need to be very careful about interesting your neighbor's kids in
telescope and astronomy.  They might have religious prohibitions against
scientific activity, or they might reject some teachings of astronomy (the
age of the universe).   

Whatever observatory is built, you need solid block walls that can stop
bullets from damaging your instruments, as many of the ignoranti like to
take potshots at strange looking buildings.


-----Original Message-----
From: atm-bounces at atmlist.net [mailto:atm-bounces at atmlist.net] On Behalf Of
Jerry Hillman
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 1:47 PM
To: hermit
Cc: atm at atmlist.net
Subject: Re: [ATM] observatory

HI KEN
What a great idea.  Most of my neighbors have kids, and at the moment I have
3 telescopes.

Jerry B.

--- On Mon, 3/7/11, hermit <hermit at outofoptions.org> wrote:

> From: hermit <hermit at outofoptions.org>
> Subject: Re: [ATM] observatory
> To: atm at atmlist.net
> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 7:23 PM
> Time for a star party with all of the
> neighbors invited?  The electric company supplies those
> lights for one purpose.  They have excess capacity at
> night.
> 
> Ken Lowther
> 
> On 03/07/2011 02:01 PM, Jerry Hillman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > A large stumbling block for me being able to stargaze
> at the moment is my neighbors yardlight.  It is one of
> the big, electric company provided lights designed for
> security.  It also lights up my entire 10 acres. 
> I used to have one of them too and when they would not let
> me put a switch on it to turn it off, I made them remove it
> and put up my own. With an off switch.
> > I erected a 12 foot long by 10 foot high wall about 16
> feet from where I usually set up my telescope. That blocked
> the light itself but did nothing for reflected light from
> trees and every other structure in the area. And I also
> became aware of all the other yard lights within sight.Short
> of building a 32 x 32 foot square building with 10 foot
> walls, I need a observatory that I can place in my pasture
> that I can leave my telescopes in.  I looked online and
> discovered that most slide off roof home observatorys are
> not nearly that big.  What is the optimum wall height
> for a home observatory. And what part of the sky should I
> just give up on?
> > Jerry B.
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