Due to ardent pursuing of my astronomy and observatory building I'm afraid I've neglected these forums lately
I haven't given up on weather stations and still have mine running, though have had some problems with the wind sensor data transmission.
I see that when I last visited this thread I had started building my observatory and have been expending nearly all my spare time and effort on that so here is a quick update. I'll post more later...
The self-build observatory.
This building consists of two "rooms", a telescope room , with a roll off roof to give access to the sky and a "warm room" separated form it, where the temperature can be raised a bit without affecting viewing. The telescope is mounted on a very solid concrete pier to avoid vibrations and then on an electronically controlled telescope mount to "point" the 'scope at the object to be viewed. The warm room provides a better human environment and will contain computers etc.
Here's a couple of photos of the current state of the build.
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I'll post more info on how this has been going and stages leading up to it in the last year or two shortly.
Meanwhile, I can link to one of my threads on Stargazers Lounge (a UK astronomy board) viz.
http://stargazerslounge.com/diy-observatories/155851-ginas-observatory-build.html This links to the start of the thread from where you can see the detailed full build so far in words and pictures.
There is another (very long) thread in the same forum all about the design of this "astro-shed" here :-
http://stargazerslounge.com/diy-observatories/142663-ginas-observatory.html This goes through all my detailed thoughts and ramblings on the design of an observatory, covering many design changes along the way and views of other members of the board. These and other threads were a great help to me.
My main weather station webcam has been turned to the SE (from S) to cover the observatory build and an extra web page added to my weather site to allow for a full resolution (1280x800) image from this webcam. The upload rate has also been increased to three per minute. The lower resolution image is still available on the usual weather site web page.
High res webcam image here :-
http://ginad.org.uk/weathergd/Webcam-big.html
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The rain has penetrated down to the clay level and is still pretty wet and heavy. Main problem is stones. I was well down into the clay with the pier base hole and then it was hand trowel work - pretty hard.
