Roll Off Roof Observatory With Warm Room

The warm room is a core part of the crayford observatory design i didn t like the wasted space that the frame on traditional roll off roof observatories had and it was utilising this space as a warm room that ultimately lead to the crayford observatory design.

Roll off roof observatory with warm room.

For our client this was an ideal point of flexibility. The larger observatories usually 12 x8 and over can accommodate a fully enclosed warm room as shown on the pictures here. Meet our top of the line greenline mega roll off observatory if you want to install more than one telescope. With our moving rear shutter system.

Both areas are equivalent in width and length. Prices starting a t 6 800. The warm room is a standard 6ft x 6ft garden shed with a double door. I my wife wanted to save as much garden space as possible so i will be building a new roof section that slides back on rails over the warm room side of the observatory.

The room can take your desk chair and computer equipment and it is possible to insulate it if required. It s a fairly sturdy one though and i m reinforcing it where possible. This room as you can see has an independent ceiling which can be seen when the roof is fully opened. Or alternatively an operator may sit in a heated control room enjoying electronically assisted astronomy with one of the mounted.

The observatory is a classic roll off roof backyard observatory with an insulated control room. Willis observatory bakersville north carolina spruce pine astronomy stargazers astrophotography observatories planewave lunt space telescopes solar lunar planetary nebulae galaxy ufo roll off roof star party space dark skies universe sun moon images pixinsight moon telescope night sky image images p. The home farm observatories story started in 2010 when neil then the owner of a telescope shop was approached by a customer in edinburgh to recommend a good quality roll off roof observatory for the new equipment he was to purchase. Our latest observatory design allows us to seamlessly add a warm room in the future without any wasted parts.

As well as a powerful roof drive and intelligent semi or fullly automatic control systems. For this observatory we offer several warm room options. The roof is powered as a included feature with a center mounted rack and pinion drive. My design is probably quite unconventional and uses an off the shelf 12 x 8 shed as a starting point.

The observing area roof rolls off onto support beams that are positioned over a warm room area.