Observing Table

Last night I joined a local amateur astronomer. He basically helped me
with my telescope and doing some observing.

One of the things he brought with him what I thought was a table. But
looking at it was a storage case for his star charts.

It was around 24" x 24" (may have been bigger) and made of plywood. He
said he found plans for it on the net.

Does anyone know of something like this?

Thanks,

Bill

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 8:01:12 -0500, Bill Davis Jr wrote
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From: Bill Davis Jr
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur

Last night I joined a local amateur astronomer. He basically helped me with
my telescope and doing some observing.

One of the things he brought with him what I thought was a table. But
looking at it was a storage case for his star charts.

It was around 24" x 24" (may have been bigger) and made of plywood. He said
he found plans for it on the net.

Does anyone know of something like this?

You mean something like this one?

http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/daveg/ObsTbl.html

Looks pretty intriguing, I may have to see about putting something like it
together for myself.

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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 8:01:12 -0500, Bill Davis Jr wrote
(in message ):

From: Bill Davis Jr
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur

Last night I joined a local amateur astronomer. He basically helped me with
my telescope and doing some observing.

One of the things he brought with him what I thought was a table. But
looking at it was a storage case for his star charts.

It was around 24" x 24" (may have been bigger) and made of plywood. He said
he found plans for it on the net.

Does anyone know of something like this?

Also you might check out:

http://www.path.queensu.ca/~kell/atm/table.htm

There are a number of other possibilities, just do a Google search for
"Observing Table" I found these two in the first 10 finds.

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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and literacy...literacy and
surprise....

Our two weapons are literacy and surprise... and ruthless
sticklery....

Our three weapons are literacy, surprise, and ruthless sticklery...
and an almost fanatical devotion to Strunk & White....

Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
are such elements as literacy, surprise...

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Harry,

Thanks for the links.

This one is close to the one he had. This one he had was alot thinner.
The one in the Link is 6" and the one I saw was not the tall.

But the thing I like I can take some of these Observing Table and come
up with a design of my own.

Thanks,

Bill

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:28:28 -0500, Harry F. Leopold
wrote:

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 8:01:12 -0500, Bill Davis Jr wrote
(in message ):

From: Bill Davis Jr
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur

Last night I joined a local amateur astronomer. He basically helped me with
my telescope and doing some observing.

One of the things he brought with him what I thought was a table. But
looking at it was a storage case for his star charts.

It was around 24" x 24" (may have been bigger) and made of plywood. He said
he found plans for it on the net.

Does anyone know of something like this?

Also you might check out:

http://www.path.queensu.ca/~kell/atm/table.htm

There are a number of other possibilities, just do a Google search for
"Observing Table" I found these two in the first 10 finds.

"Bill Davis Jr" wrote in message
...
Harry,

Thanks for the links.

This one is close to the one he had. This one he had was alot thinner.
The one in the Link is 6" and the one I saw was not the tall.

But the thing I like I can take some of these Observing Table and come
up with a design of my own.


Do a search for an artist's wooden sketch box, like this one:
http://www.allartsupplies.com/item.php?articleId=1245

Not quite the size you are looking for, but there are other manufacturers
and sizes out there.

Thanks John for the link. This also gives me some ideas.

Now that I remember his box was something like in the link. Actually
what he did was he bought the Sky Atlas 2000.0 Deluxe the big red book
version. Then he carefully took out the pages and had them laminated.
With the Map Charts back to back to each other. Then the box he made
was a bit bigger then that.

These links give me some ideas of building my own box/table.

Bill

On Sat, 01 May 2004 02:34:16 GMT, "John Schiaparelli"
wrote:


"Bill Davis Jr" wrote in message
.. .
Harry,

Thanks for the links.

This one is close to the one he had. This one he had was alot thinner.
The one in the Link is 6" and the one I saw was not the tall.

But the thing I like I can take some of these Observing Table and come
up with a design of my own.


Do a search for an artist's wooden sketch box, like this one:
http://www.allartsupplies.com/item.php?articleId=1245

Not quite the size you are looking for, but there are other manufacturers
and sizes out there.

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:37:59 -0500, Bill Davis Jr wrote
(in message ):

From: Bill Davis Jr
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur

Harry,

Thanks for the links.

This one is close to the one he had. This one he had was alot thinner.
The one in the Link is 6" and the one I saw was not the tall.

That is why I included several plus the words I used for the search, I
figured that you probably would find that not one would have all the features
you need but could pick and choose as you felt would fit your needs.

But the thing I like I can take some of these Observing Table and come
up with a design of my own.

Yes, as long as you have to build it yourself you can just check out a number
of them and come up with a design that includes most, if not all, of your
required needs.

Thanks,

No problem at all, it got me to go out and check up on what designs are out
there, I need to build one myself soon, that it helped you is just a nice
extra.

Have fun, watch out for splinters. ;-)
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:34:16 -0500, John Schiaparelli wrote
(in message ):

From: "John Schiaparelli"
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur


"Bill Davis Jr" wrote in message
...
Harry,

Thanks for the links.

This one is close to the one he had. This one he had was alot thinner.
The one in the Link is 6" and the one I saw was not the tall.

But the thing I like I can take some of these Observing Table and come
up with a design of my own.


Do a search for an artist's wooden sketch box, like this one:
http://www.allartsupplies.com/item.php?articleId=1245

Not quite the size you are looking for, but there are other manufacturers
and sizes out there.

And thank you, this is another possible source I had not thought of. I
probably will build my own, but the wider the possibilities before starting
the better.

--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)

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