| The observatory building was completed in 1996. It is a 7' X 7' sliding roof design, constructed with wooden cladding on a metal frame. The roof has aluminium tile effect sheets, also on a metal frame, which slides on eight nylon rollers along a track supported by a timber frame.
The observatory originally housed a 3" refractor on an equatorial mount constructed by myself. A Meade ETX 105 is now mounted on the pier and used in altazimuth mode with an Autostar controller. I hope to be able to have a larger computer controlled telescope in the near future.
My main areas of interest are visual variable star observing of some eruptive/cataclysmic stars and most of the TAV/TASV stars discovered by Mike Collins. Some imaging has been done of the sun, moon and planets using a digital camera, along with some deep sky imaging using conventional cameras. | 
