N 39.2° | W 78.9°
1120 ft EL

The original Morning Star observatory was built in 2009 in Virginia and was an 8' diameter Exploradome with a small warm room attached to the main structure. It housed a Celestron C-11 and an Astro-Tech AT6RC astrograph with an Orion Starshoot Pro OSC camera.. It was dismantled in 2017 when I retired and moved to West Virginia.

​​I've been planning for a new observatory, but things just seem to keep getting in the way. First it was delayed while we worked on what was supposed to be our retirement place from 2018 to 2021. I just didn't have the time or money to start on the new obs, but in the end this turned out to be a good thing because we sold that place and moved again in 2021. I learned all about the downside of owning property in a development with a POA.
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We bought several acres of land in 2021 and started over on a new retirement place, but his time we found land that is unrestricted, with no outside, self-serving interests with their hands in our pockets. We've been working on that ever since, but I'm about caught up on it and can now get back to concentrating on building the observatory dome.

Work on the dome can start when it warms up a bit and the field dries out enough to get a backhoe in there without making a muddy mess.
The layout for the pages on this website are best viewed on a desktop PC. The mobile views usually look OK, but sometimes not so much. I've just learned to live with it, being it's a free website provider and all.
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(Last update to this page - 1/26/2023)