So this ambition to get a telescope and view the heavens has been with me since I was a child visiting relatives in Italy. We would lie on the flat roof of a house and just watch the shooting stars. Not knowing much about astronomy and arguably knowing only slightly more, the opportunity to purchase an old telescope arose. However I realised that as a disabled person I need to house it outside or it would never be used. My first plan was to build a slide off roof shed but a dome was available for an amazing price and so I got some help to put  together the base. Unfortunately the base section of the dome needed to be cut to fit in the van that collected it so a lot of unforeseen work was required.