Ozark Hills Observatory

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Ozark Hills Observatory
Latitude 37.27 N, Longitude 93.12 W
Strafford, Mo USA
Established May 2003 Richard Harris Owner/Operator
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The Dream..

• The Ozark Hills Observatory was founded in the
  backyard of our previous residence being built by
  myself and of my own design in 2003.

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The original observatory, housed 6 different
telescopes during its time in service ( almost 2
years).
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• I learned many things about the workings of a
  dome when I built the first observatory. What I
  like, didnt like and what Id like to have in
  the future.
• I found an ad on the Internet for a used
  Technical Innovations Home Dome 6 model and I
  bought it. We were very excited!

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The old dome had to go! We sold it to an
individual in Kansas City.
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A new day..The new observatory arrives!
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Installed and ready for a session
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• The OHO equipment quicklist
• 10 LX200 GPS model with UHTC
• Televue 80mm APO
• Starlight express Mx7c color CCD imager
• Canon 10D camera for wider field imaging
• Digital Dome works dome automation

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Moving on

• We decided to build a new house in the Spring of
  2006. My wife and I came to the agreement that an
  observatory on the 3rd level of the new house was
  a great idea! But the problem was cost and how it
  was going to look on the house. In addition there
  were obvious questions I had
• Roof temperature viewing
• Damping time for telescope
• View of the sky from the roof

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We went for it!

• After talking with many people over the Internet
  and locally, as well as calling up Technical
  Innovations and getting their advice, We felt
  that putting an observatory on the roof of the
  new house was going to be worth the effort. I
  ordered the roof mount kit from Technical
  Innovations and dis-assembled the observatory for
  a retro-fit onto the roof.

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The tear-down begins
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Doctor, is this normal?
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Only these pieces along with the new roof
conversion kit are used
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Ready for transport..
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Pre-fit of the Technical Innovations roof-mount
kit
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Building the roof ring base in the observatory
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Flange installation
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The roof flange
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Looking South-East The flange and dome base
install is complete roof is 12/12 pitch
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(Trees to be cut)
Dome install complete
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Observatory covered with Cedar Rear house view
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Front house view, the observatory isnt seen but
is located here
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To access the observatory, there is a cat-walk
on the 3rd floor which leads to the room
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For more information about the observatory and
its construction along with updated photos and
more (including the inside) go to
http//oho.scopetrader.com/