Roof Mounted Telescope

The 100 inch 2 5 m hooker telescope which was the largest aperture.

Roof mounted telescope.

Your telescope setup can stay mounted in the observatory even while in transit. When the night sky is clear the zeiss telescope is open from the roof and serves up to 600 visitors per night. The mobile observatory comes with a 3 point hydraulic telescope isolation platform that isolates the telescope from the trailer floor allowing you to walk around the observatory without shaking the telescope. The primary thing to remember here is that when you set out to make a roof mount for that telescope at the home itself is that the main motive is to make a strong mount.

The observatory is more or less exactly the right size for the telescope to sit in its horizontal stored position diagonally with the roof closed. The observatory contains two historically important telescopes. Pick the lumber shape accordingly. The mount wilson observatory mwo is an astronomical observatory in los angeles county california united states the mwo is located on mount wilson a 1 740 metre 5 710 foot peak in the san gabriel mountains near pasadena northeast of los angeles.

This telescope is free to the public every night the the observatory is open and the sky is clear. Setup takes about 10 minutes. What you should avoid is that try and get a strong mount do not change the contour of the roof it s best suited the way it is. Inflexion roof mounted fold down telescoping mast was designed to meet the elevation requirements of smaller payloads such as cameras positioners antennas and advanced broadcast devices.