Building a backyard observatory 25 years ago usually meant one of two things: Buy a dome or do it yourself from scratch. A simple “roll-off roof ” observatory was also an alternative.

In the March 2009 issue, I wrote a how-to about building a backyard observatory. One section discussed deciding between a dome or roll-off roof. Most amateur astronomers who select a domed roof ...

With a little help from their friends [Jeff Fisher] and his dad built this observatory in their back ... were stick built and a carefully crafted dome was assembled and hefted in place by this ...

dozens of backyard observatories have sprung up in the woods around Flagstaff. Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker used their own 8-by-10-foot "home dome" for about five years before relocating it to ...

German astrophotographer Mehmet Ergün turned his lifelong passion for astronomy into reality by building his own backyard observatory ... a second-hand observatory dome. Mehmet dedicated two ...

The Weston school system is trying to sell an eight-foot-tall observatory dome in an online auction ... it can be housed in a backyard for personal use, or, ideally, sent to another school ...

And look you can: Perched more than 5,700 feet above Pasadena, the nearly 120-year-old observatory hosts stargazing sessions inside a pair of massive domes throughout the spring and summer.