TROK+moves+to+Bulgaria

The TROK Telescope has now been sold to Terry and is off to Bulgaria (Autumn 2014). Image below is of the proud new owner next to the TROK. Terry is taking on an amazing project to provide a unique Astronomy and Nature facility that is easy access from the UK airports. This will be an ideal location for the telescope under clear dark skies. It will get used a lot more than here in the UK. We all wish Terry luck and hope to get out soon to help him assemble the telescope when the observatory is completed. There are not many places you get to look through such a large telescope under good dark skies. Update September 2016: Terry has done a great job and the Observatory is complete. See the latest pictures and contact Terry on FaceBook:-
 * @https://www.facebook.com/terry.ayling.1**



Novo Yankovo is a small rural village in north east Bulgaria with approximately 120 residents and is less than 2 hours drive from Varna airport on the Black Sea Coast and less than 30 Min's drive from Shumen. The property is located on the southern edge of the village boundary's and when I stayed there in April this year I recorded consistent after midnight sky quality meter readings of between 21.5 and 21.86 that is around 6.7 naked eye limited magnitude. Village street lights are turned off at 10 pm to save electricity. The area also has superb potential to watch and photograph many birds and butterflies and my plan over the next two years is to renovate my property and barn into comfortable accommodation/camping for guests to come and enjoy superb visual astronomy and nature under dark skies at a affordable price. There is a lot of work to do over the next few months. The images below show the property and the land around it where the telescope will eventually be located. Keep looking back here as things develop.



**Update July 2015.** The observatory deck is now nearly completed. The following images show it's construction over the last few months.











Images below are from Terry as of **December 2015**. Things are getting closer to being finished and the hide looks great.