..this weekend, Saturday at 9, Sunday at 11am. Last weekend we finished painting the interior, finished and installed the door, and built the main arches of...
Last weekend the dome becase three dimensional when we attached the main shutter arches to the base ring, and added some ribs. On Monday and Tuesday I added...
<http://indianastars.us/starparty> As you may know, NIAGfest is no more, so GREATCon (convention of the Great Lakes Region of the Astronomical Society) will be...
Progress was slow this week due to rain over the weekend. Also, some of the plywood that the ribs were cut from had warped from all the rain earlier in May,...
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Sorry I forgot to mention this earlier, but Turkey Run and Shades state parks are having an Astronomy Day this Saturday (this weekend's PGO open house is...
Progress was slow again this week due to rain on Sunday and high heat the rest of the time, but we finished trimming around the shutter opening on Saturday and...
FYI, There was a little piece on the front page of the Lafayette J&C about the longest day (yesterday) and the time change impact on different activities. If...
We got about half the "skin" panels in place this weekend. A few others were done earlier, so we're more than half done. I've also started on the shutters. ...
Yahoo ate my first copy of this, so here's the condensed version, since I have only a few minutes: We have about 1 day's work left on the dome before painting...
Hoppy has a spray gun we were going to use for the paint, but it looks like the paint we have won't work with it. So we have to paint by hand. That means we...
Just a few finishing details left for Saturday, then we'll put the dome on the building on Sunday. Here's some pictures Bill Hayward sent me last week:...
After we raced for a day and a half this weekend to finish the dome, we found out that Hoppy's friend with the crane couldn't make it Sunday. Fortunately,...
Here's the latest updates for IFSP: We have a new vendor, Camera Concepts & Telescope Solutions <http://www.cameraconcepts.com/> Also, Lonnie Puterbaugh of...
See attached pictures. That's me in the third picture holding up the dome ;) The truck this time was from the Frankfort power and light utility. Serious ...
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It was a stressful but ultimately successful week. After several false starts, the dome was finally put on top of the building last Friday (which ...
.. is nearly finished. The carpet was put in this morning, and I'm finishing the hold-down hardware. Bill Hayward has been working on motorizing the dome. I...
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Reminder from the Calendar of pg_obs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pg_obs/cal Indiana Family Star Party Friday August 18, 2006 2:00 pm - 12:00 am (This event...
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Camp Cullom's annual "Graze and Gaze" event will be held this Saturday Oct 14. The Chili Supper will begin at 4:30 (with smores for dessert, I think). A ...
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The Indiana Astronomical Society and the Wabash Valley Astronomical Society are sponsoring a free Astronomy Day event (two days, actually) at PGO on ...
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