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Backyard winter sextant observatory?
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2005 Apr 19, 18:04 -0300
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2005 Apr 19, 18:04 -0300
I'm going to have to build a backyard winter
observatory. Too much of the year is too cold for sextant
work.
My thought is to put a plexiglass dome in
the roof of a small, lightweight, insulated structure that I could heat with a
110 volt heater in a few minutes. Has anyone done that? Where would
I get the dome?
If it was sufficiently lightweight, it could
be transported to beach locations for winter sights using a natural
horizon:
http://jimthompson.net/boating/CelestialNav/PEISextant.htm.
Even cutting out the wind would be a blessing.
Ideally it should accomodate two people for
teaching, but that would greatly diminish it's portability.
Jim Thompson
jim3 at jimthompson dot
net
www.jimthompson.net
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