Building Stuff - An Observatory (kind of)

[@Tony-Elliott]

Great video Andy nice to see you two have a few unfinished projects so it's not just me lol, looking forward to seeing more of your content

[@danielash1704]

Nice work on the scope gimble 3d printers are now assembling a market here in South Carolina Columbia university of S.C students started 3 D for many projects they usually couldn't afford to make now it's a matter of collecting bottle plastic 😅

[@Blu3B33r]

The circle for the observatory looked so small until you stepped next to it lol I am just an amateur in programming, but I managed to use chatGPT to go far beyond my abilities. Maybe it could make an observatory more plausible, too Otherwise, I am excited to see how the dual scope will perform! The tilt is definitely something I didn't think about before

[@Jhongerage]

I've found for these sorts of things, reverse engineering an INDI driver, getting the protocol and implementing it in arduino is actually really very easy. I'm not convinced the dome part is the hard bit (especially since it looks like you cut those bits left handed, in the dark! :P)

[@astronomerathome]

Yes, we all have half finished projects lying around. I finally finished my allsky camera, and I'm slowly finishing up my 3x135mm samyang setup. Btw, I can highly recommend the Altair dualband filters - zero halos!

[@dumpydalekobservatory]

Yup I've got half finished projects to finish to Andy as I still need to get the Newtonian sorted but I just haven't got round to it, mind you it doesn't help when your astro mojo is at an all time low but hopefully I'll get back to it soon. I only got myself a dome as it was £155 on eBay & money is tight, it's a home made one & quite heavy to shove around so I cannot see it ever being fully automated plus I wouldn't have a clue on how to do it either. Not that I mind staying up keeping an eye on things as should anything go wrong I'm there to sort everything out, ideally if I could of afforded it a roll off roof or roll off shed would have probably been the way to go for me.

[@danielash1704]

Droids and the intelligence of its continuous loops of information it does a lot of work for little time but that's a pretty expensive thing to buy but they will assemble anything that shows the value it draws information in and products out there is a literal expression of intelligence itself a droid will be on the market place before we know it and cheaper then a car