The Louis J. Rick Observatory was housed on Garfield Road in Birminham, Ohio.
The observatory was a block building with a roll off roof. It housed the MASON telescope.
The building in the foreground was our BRAS Library and it housed a 12.5" Odessey Dobsonian.
The club archives, library books and archives were also stored in the Library building.
It also served as a darkroom.
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| George
Rick |
Tom
Beam |
Carl Peck, Tom Beam, Roy
Anderson,
(backside) George Diedrich and
unknown
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Chester
Franklin and unknown |
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| PICNIC
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Party
goers |
We
really do travel on our stomachs |
Clearing????
HALLELUJAH ! |
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| Neither
snow nor....... |
Our
Library |
Meeting
at the old clubhouse |
One
of our old Iron ons |
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| More
picnic |
Mark
Forsythe and Randy Beachler with their refurbished Camera Platform |
The
Camera Drive Platform. Mark did the mechanical work and Randy did the electrical part |
The roof is off and the scope
is pointing heavenward
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can't say enough about this little camera platform. It was basically an
old german equatorial mount placed on a pier and sunk into a nice concrete pad. It had a motor drive and tracked quite well @ < 100mm focal length. This is where many of us took our very first astrophotos. |
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