This was my recently completed and ambitious undertaking of building my backyard (actually front yard) observatory. On July 3, I marked out the location of my 6’x8’ observatory and officially began the project. Everyone in the neighborhood was super supportive, so I'm grateful for that! As of Oct. 10, 2020, the observatory is now 99.9% complete
The basics: The obsy is 6’x8’ with a truss roof which will slide open to the South. I poured an 18” concrete pier with 36” concrete footing approximately 6 ft. underground, sufficiently below the New England frost line. The concrete footing sits on 2 in. of packed gravel, with rebar supporting both the footing and the pier itself. Once set, on top of the concrete pier, I have my 53” high x 8" diameter steel pier bolted and exposed centrally within my obsy. With all the construction and painting complete, last weekend, I had 20A of power and 2x Cat6 ethernet pulled into it.
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Thanks!
Ara
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