Observatory ready!
Done!
After so many years I finally lived to see it! The base version of the observatory is ready! But let’s take a look at all the steps first.
Floor
Paul has finished the floor extremely quickly. Seemingly a simple thing, but due to the piers the installation of the girders, i.e. the beams on which the floor boards are supported was not trivial at all. The end result looks like this:
The horizontal wall that’s loose
In some of the observatories I visited in the past, the designers fought for every
degree of visibility in the southern direction. One way to improve it is with an opening
wall. No idea if this has a nickname in English, but it’s sometimes called lufcik in Polish.
The photo below shows the opening frame….
The planked final version can be seen in the photo in the next section.
Walls and the finished barrel
Paul suggested that the planks on the wall should be installed in an overlapping manner. I wasn’t sure about that, but I took a little risk and it worked out quite nicely. By the way, the photo also caught the finished lufcik.
Open for business!
Finally, a demonstration of the retractable roof and open wall. In other words, theobservatory in observation mode.
Ehh, I can’t wait to make my first observations…
