Almost every serious amateur astronomer knows the benefit of having a fixed observatory of some sort - it saves a vast amount of time and effort during every observing session - and this book provides the necessary help.

1 Garage and Garden Observatory.- 2 A Portable Observatory.- 3 A User-Friendly Run-Off Shed for a 12-inch LX200.- 4 Darklight Observatory, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.- 5 Turner Observatory.- 6 A Simple Rotating Observatory in Nottingham, England.- 7 St Margaret’s Observatory.- 8 Ken Dauzat Observatory.- 9 A Lancashire Observatory — Part II.- 10 Arcturus Observatory.- 11 Osmundstö Observatory: A Garage Observatory for CCD Imaging Located at the Shoreline of Southern Norway.- 12 Huntington Observatory, York.- 13 Ptolemy’s Café.- 14 The Construction of Starbase Two.- 15 A Domestic Solar Observatory.- 16 Coddenham Observatory in Suffolk, England.- 17 Building the Crendon Observatory.- 18 The Marina Towers Observatory, Swansea.- Contributors.- About the CD-ROM.

A permanent building for any small astronomical telescope is a great asset.  Comfort, ease of use and above all being able to spend time actually observing instead of setting up the telescope mean that most amateur astronomers dream of having a fixed site.The second collection of- mostly amateur- observatories for small telescopes provides yet more ideas along with a wealth of practical information for anyone thinking of building an observatory.

Almost every amateur astronomer dreams of having a fixed observatory - this provides ideas and constructional details Provides ideas from around the world, not only the UK and USA An entertaining read, even for non-astronomers