Selected Project
From garden shed to observatory
Reaching For The Stars A long time passion for the stars is in the process of being brought closer to home, in fact as close as the garden shed (for some of our returning clients). An existing small building tucked into a far corner of the garden is to be developed to allow the addition of an observatory dome with observation platform, and a control room to operate the telescope and tracking equipment. The 9m2 shed will have a new mezzanine level added to form the observatory platform, built around and isolated from a new steel pier installed into the existing slab to mount the telescope equipment. The platform is accessed by a trapdoor and ladder. The engineered steel pier supports (from the bottom up): a second internal elevating telescope pier, and a German equatorial telescope mount and wedge, with the telescope fixed to the mount. This equipment will enable the telescope to track objects in the heavens over long periods of time as the earth spins, allowing long exposure imaging of these objects. We are as excited as our clients about this micro scale project with galactic views; a portal to the heavens from a simple kiwi shed!
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- Small Project Architecture
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