For our client this was an ideal point of flexibility.
Roll off roof observatory with warm room.
The tele station7 roll off roof observatory is designed with larger sizes in mind.
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.
He requires a roll off roof observatory of a good size but the additional floor space of a warm room would have taken it over his budget.
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.
The room can take your desk chair and computer equipment and it is possible to insulate it if required.
With our moving rear shutter system.
The larger observatories usually 12 x8 and over can accommodate a fully enclosed warm room as shown on the pictures here.
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.
This room as you can see has an independent ceiling which can be seen when the roof is fully opened.
The observatory is a classic roll off roof backyard observatory with an insulated control room.
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Both areas are equivalent in width and length.
Or alternatively an operator may sit in a heated control room enjoying electronically assisted astronomy with one of the mounted.
As well as a powerful roof drive and intelligent semi or fullly automatic control systems.
Our latest observatory design allows us to seamlessly add a warm room in the future without any wasted parts.
It has an external deck for for visual observing while the permanently mounted teelscopes two are used for imaging.
The observing area roof rolls off onto support beams that are positioned over a warm room area.
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 warm room is a standard 6ft x 6ft garden shed with a double door.