Future Projects
This page lists some planned future projects. As these projects progress, I will add additional web pages .- An observatory pier to mount a C8: FINISHED
- A motorized focuser: FINISHED
- An illuminated reticle eyepiece for polar alignment and ccd guiding: FINISHED
- Digital setting circles using computer mouse encoders
- Build a small goto equatorial mount for my orange tube C90: FINISHED
- Construct a Philips SPC900NC adapter: FINISHED
- Build a dew heater for a C8 (corrector plate heater)
- A better secondary mirror holder with collimating screws: FINISHED
- A Telrad dew heater made from battery operated hunting socks: FINISHED
- A 3.3 m diameter domed observatory: FINISHED
- Build an autoguider system and retrofit it to an orange tube C8: FINISHED
- Add dome automation to automatically track with the telescope
- Computer program to calculate local siderial time and hour angle: FINISHED
Several prototype observatory models (with unwelcome guests) are shown below:
