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Simple telescope observatory for my LX200 – only a standard 6 x 4 foot shed which is simply converted to house my Meade 10″ SCT LX200 Classic.
Your eyepieces, computers & other equipment are kept within the roll off section so they always stay dew free.
It also has an advantage for you as well because your under cover it keeps you a bit warmer to.
Basic 6 x 4 garden shed is used as the concept and a number of standard furniture castors are used at the bottom of the roll off section. I used aluminium “U” tracks screw mounted onto the shed floor base to keep the castors all in line. Two X2 inch wheels mounted under the rear door support the back in the rolled off condition.
If you keep pressing the pause / play button you will get a number of “still images” which gives a better insight into the observatories simple construction.
Being like every other shed in every other garden it also detracts light fingered persons from its real perpoise…
Saying that you still should have it alarmed and locked securely.
The scope mount & 12 foot base is the hard work – the installation of the shed / observatory only took a day to do.
Ten years its been working now and also moved house in that time so its not doing bad for a £125.00 Argos shed…
Fully extended the whole shed is 11 foot 6″ long… Check out my other posts and feel free to comment.
Regards
Peter Bruce. – Eastchurch Gap on the Isle of Sheppey.

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Meade LX200 & Observatory + Equipment. – Longest and best video using a number of CCD imagers. Please take a look – it will not disappoint.
All images by Peter Bruce. Eastchurch.Isle of Sheppey Kent

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Meade LX200 & Observatory + Equipment. – Longest and best video using a number of CCD imagers. Please take a look – it will not disappoint.
All images by Peter Bruce. Eastchurch.Isle of Sheppey Kent

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Rick gets over excited about a mouse-in-a-telescope present at his party. Hilarious classic comedy guest starring Jennifer Saunders.

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Meade LX200 – Forgive the music – copyright and all that – Home made roll off observatory, short look at the equipment then its off to see the images its captured. – like a trip into space. All images by Peter Bruce.

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Look at a Meade LX200 and see what’s bolted to it in the observatory – then its off into the sky to see the images its taken. All images by Peter Bruce. Isle of Sheppey Kent. UK.

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Meade LX200 telescope – Shorter version – showing observatory, equipment and images you can obtain with a 10″ LX200. All images by Peter Bruce Eastchurch. See M13 M27 M31 M32 M33 M42 M 45 M51 together with the Moon & Planets.
Any queries please email and I will do my best to help you.

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telescope – Meade LX200 – what can you see with a 10″.
Eastchurch Isle of Sheppey. Kent. UK
All images by Peter Bruce. This video sounded better with original Enya music but had to change due to copyright – shame.
Images taken with Webcam, Cannon EOS, Starlight Xpress MX7C, Meade DSI 1 & DSI 3 & Astrovid camera’s.

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