Welcome to Pinnacle Hill Observatory
Latitude: 37˚10’48” S, Longitude: 175˚2’37” E Elevation: 250m
Pinnacle Hill Observatory is located in the Bombay Hills, at the southern border of Auckland, New Zealand.
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The purpose of this site is to share my hobby via my blog posts and provide some information about the observatory in general.
The Observatory is a private facility and not open to the public, although I do welcome visitors by prior arrangement.
Andrew Kirk
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Pinnacle Hill Observatory is in the news… Check it out on the stuff website - New Gear!
I managed to get a little funding from the CFO (Sheryl) so I bought an Orion ED80T CF 80mm Carbon Fiber APO Triplet Refractor Telescope. The scope has a carbon fibre body which makes it attractive and light. So, why this scope? My main OTA (optical tube assembly) is a Celestron 11″ EdgeHD which has… Read More »New Gear! - Observatory Software
Now the workstation is built, it’s named (Kronos), and it’s physically installed into the observatory. It’s time to install the software. I’ve tried lots of different types of software over the years, and with the various drivers for Ascom etc, it can get kinda messy. Installing a system from scratch is an opportunity for a… Read More »Observatory Software - Kronos Workstation Install.
So this weekend, I installed the workstation in the observatory. If you recall from my last post, I wanted to change from 2 computers in the observatory to a single workstation that controls everything. Using 2 was just annoying with remote desktop etc. The previous post talked about the workstation build, which I’ve named Kronos… Read More »Kronos Workstation Install.
