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| The observatory building is 15 by 23 feet, with two piers. The rails are 32 feet long, permitting the roof to be rolled approximately 8 feet from the building. The walls were set at 7 feet, and roof pitch at 5 in 12, permitting a standard door, plenty of headroom and good wind protection. The roof is motorized. For details of the expansion of this building in the spring of 2005, and for a few photos of my first observatory built in 1977, click HERE. |
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| The observatory with sculpture by Nashville artist Rusty Wolfe. |
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| The roof mechanism. An old off-road vehicle reversible winch powers the roll-off mechanism. Several pulleys with a practice bomb weight act as a tensioning device for the cable loop. |
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