Bird's eye view of the site. The blue arrow was the original location of the first observatory. The red arrow is where the existing 5 observatories are now located.
Like a Canadian 'Kitt Peak' A cluster of of 5 observatories. Since the first hole in the ground, it's been 8 years in the making.
In view, observatories for a 8" f 10 Meade, and a 10" LX-200 f 6.3
Walter MacDonald holding up my observatory. The Dome shutter and RA are electrically controlled. Everything works off of a gas generator.
An afternoon Bar-B-Q waiting for the summer evening sky
Walter MacDonald, Randy Hendriks and Doug Clapp
October 15 1998 A beautiful Fall day, waiting for the sun to set.

Starting a night's session. No need to yell 'LIGHTS' We are inside!
All we need now is a 115 mile cable or two back to Toronto.
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