Six six-foot square concrete observing pads with electrical outlets. Sixteen-foot Ash Dome atop nine-feet high silo stave walls with a metal door. The Ash Dome was donated by the U. S. Army. It previously served in the Apollo Mission

• Ground breaking for the observatory
• Digging to make observing pads
• Preparing frames for the pads
• Trenches for wires to supply power to the pads
• Skreeding the pads
• Digging to China
• Setting the plinth form
• Pouring the concrete for the plinth
• Pouring concrete for the observatory floor
• Skreeding the floor
• Setting the first row of staves
• Modifying the staves
• Row one complete
• Row two
• Third row of staves almost completed
• The work crew
• Wall plate assembly
• A jig saw puzzle?
• Refurbished panels
• The first few dome panels in place
• Mourning the dawn!
• Slit door installed
• This floor will hold an elephant!
• Building a stairway to Heaven
• Contemplation