Martin Lyons

Not too long ago, Martin Lyons of Somerset West acquired a Meade 14-inch SCT. A big 'scope like that needs a suitable home. Martin's cunning solution recently came together, quite literally, in his backyard.

The 'scope is housed in a pre-fab plastic 'wendy house' erected on the northern end of the patio. The roof panels were removed and replaced by a segmented roll-up roof (similar to that seen covering the loading bay of a light truck).

Rapid construction/assembly time and overall simplicity makes this an excellent solution to an otherwise tricky problem.

Wilhelm Carstens and I went along on Saturday (2010 February 6) to see both the new observatory and some old deep sky favourites.

/ph

Reader's comments

Posted by Clinton Armitage on Thursday, 2010 February 25 @20:01.

Jesus! It's fuckin enormous! Nice hack job on the observatory though!

Posted by Martin Foster on Wednesday, 2010 March 10 @20:11.

Oh wow - Very innovative.

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