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Nice cave... I hope you don't leave in a building with a lot of neighbours  
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Loud enough?
Real programmers use butterflies
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If the floor shakes with each drum beat and the down stairs neighbors have not called Management then yes it is loud enough. By the way if you like Classical I recommend playing Beethoven's Fifth at 1.5x even 2x normal speed which can be done via YouTube. I found it surprisingly more pleasurable even exciting then the usual ponderous performance. If I recall correctly it was George Solti who believed it should be played faster but who stated he didn't have the courage to do so. - cheerio
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Didn't Bugs Bunny do that with Beethoven's 5th? 
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Not the best photo but my hairdo is the COVID special right now and you don't get to see it, so all you get is this old photo of me.
Silver on the left.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Beautiful though nd your right but caterpillars turn to butterflies first!!
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Canyon de Chelly Arizona 1977
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Looks like you just used your first goto.......just kidding. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I treated myself to an observatory (and another new scope)! It's currently sitting in a temporary location, need to move it about 10m to the right on a new deck that I have not had built yet. Took long enough to get here, shipped it from Canada to Cyprus, ordered in July 2020 and arrived early January 2021.
So much better than having to setup and tear down all my gear ever night. We have had some real heavy rain and high winds the last couple of days and when I checked inside this morning, the scope was still dry, so that's off to a good start
You can see a bit more about it in the video below, and the first night I had imaging from it using another new toy, a RASA 11" astrograph. I went for another first for me over to Orion Nebula.
First night in the dome. First light on the RASA11. First visit to M42 Orion Nebula - YouTube
modified 17-Feb-21 14:00pm.
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I think you meant this reply for the OP, not me. 
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I had no idea personal observatories were a thing. That's so cool!
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You wouldn't believe some of them on Youtube. They are amazing, some of the ones people are building are the size of triple garages with rolling roofs, or built on top of their houses. Just search youtube for home observatory or rolling roof observatory.
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I am so, so jealous.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Awesome.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I am consumed with envy - for having the open space for the observatory, for the observatory, and for the telescopes. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thanks Daniel, yes and dark skies on top of that as well!
I have to also thank covid for the accelerated purchases, with all the extended rotations (aka overtime) I've had to do, this has allowed me to treat myself as compensation for all those weeks away from home. Seems to justify the expense 
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DaveAuld wrote: I treated myself to an observatory (and another new scope)! It's currently sitting in a temporary location, need to move it about 10m to the right on a new deck that I have not had built yet. Took long enough to get here, shipped it from Canada to Cyprus
..let me read that again, you did what?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I know, if someone had said to me 5 years ago, 'where do you see yourself in 5 years' I don't think, in Cyprus, in an observatory, in the garden, staring at the universe through some 11" telescopes and imaging with subzero camera would have been the answer. 
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A view from my front porch. 4 foot fence in the middle ground and two cars buried to the right. Fun times.
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Just keep it on your side of the lake, please.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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