Homemade telescope

Simple TELESCOPE: HELLO.... Here winter season starting now. The memories of winter is that, It is the good period for sky watching. In this season we will see a lot of stars and planets also the milky way. The milky way is very beautiful( it is only visible in clea…

Cosmos Mariner: a Large Aperture Dobsonian Telescope: There are many good Instructables here about making your own backyard Dobsonian telescope. Many of us start in the 8-inch to 10-inch range, and spend many long nights cruising around the Cosmos checking out the sights. Eventually, however, many of u…

Telescopes make distant objects appear nearer, using a combination of lenses and mirrors. If you happen to have no telescopes or binoculars at home, and you can make one yourself! Take note that the images may appear upside down. Gather...

10-inch Dobsonian Telescope: This instructable documents the design and construction of a 10” reflector telescope. It is not intended to be a complete step-by-step instruction set, but rather to document some of the design details and methods that were used. There are a lot of…

Articles on building a Dobsonian Telescope and Newtonian Optical Tube Assembly.

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DIY Telescope's Digital Finderscope: Some of us have telescopes and some of them are manual ones like Newtonian reflectors.sometimes its tiresome to find deepsky objects with those with a dobsonian non go to mount .In this Instructable i will show you how to make a digital finder for y…

Page 1 of 2 - I want a Fork Mount! - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: In preparation for taking the Schief to Stellafane, I made some improvements to the crutch based retro mount. Schief with Retro Mount This tripod is remarkable and I must acknowledge Wayne Petko of NJAA for turning me on to the design! The stiffness of such a light (3.5 pounds) is such that it amazes all the ATMs and astronomers who use it. And me too!The weak point in my system is not the tripod but the original C...

Telescopes make distant objects appear nearer, using a combination of lenses and mirrors. If you happen to have no telescopes or binoculars at home, and you can make one yourself! Take note that the images may appear upside down. Gather...