A few pics of new roll-off roof top observatory in Green Valley, Arizona

Very nice Gina! Great looking observatory!

Dale

It remains to be seen - haha. The roof has layers of white cool coat which will help a bit and we did not want windows as they make it hotter. There are no vents per SE and we were concerned about desert critters like scorpions getting through them.  So we may just have to open the roof a bit earlier in the day to really cool things off ahead of time and there may be certain equipment we will not store in there during the summer.  It would be interesting to see how others handle the ventilation problem where it gets hot as we could perhaps add them if we know of a good solution.

I like the idea of 3" ventilation slits with window screening. That just might work for us too. Thank you!

FWIW, I have a box fan that I keep on year around just to keep the air moving all the time. The 3” holes are a good idea as well. I also had a 10” ventilation fan at one point with automatic loovers that helped a lot but as time went on the motor froze up and thats how I ended up with the box fan. 

Dale

Gina Knight:
Here are a couple of  pics of a 15x13' motorized roll-off rooftop observatory that Frank Lopez of Stellar Vision in Tucson kindly built for us. We love it.  The wall height is 5 feet and works great for our 12.5" Dobsonian which lives here along with our imaging scope on a pier. Frank did a great job  building this and we would highly recommend reaching out to him if you are in the southwestern US and are thinking of options for observatories.

You sound very happy with Frank and Stellar Vision.  I live up in Northern AZ and trying to arrange  a roll top roof built on my property.  Gina, if you don’t mind sharing their contact info or maybe have them contact me.
thanks
Mike