{"id":920,"date":"2019-12-17T09:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/?p=920"},"modified":"2019-12-17T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:45:48","slug":"someone-asked-isnt-there-an-easier-way-than-building-an-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Someone asked &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there an easier way than building an Observatory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes,  I did it once while I was building a new observatory.  It took me just 3 hours to build!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shedopen.jpg\" alt=\"Roll Off Shed\" class=\"wp-image-429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shedopen.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shedopen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shedopen-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shedopen-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><figcaption>Roll off shed design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thick marine ply base with 6 castors to help keep it from flexing, cut out for scope pier. Even put in a dehumidifier. Mine was a bit messy as it was only temporary. Cheap though!  And&#8230; Fast to start up.  I really liked this solution.  Mrs also thought it was ok in the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would be ideal for small gardens or even one of Patrick Moores concrete observatory bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, I did it once while I was building a new observatory. It took me just 3 hours to build!!<\/p>\n<p> Roll off shed design. <\/p>\n<p>Thick marine ply base with 6 castors to help keep it from flexing, cut out for scope pier. Even put in a dehumidifier. Mine was a bit messy as it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}