I take you all the way through the process of making a small newtonian It really isn’t that difficult and with a little bit of know-how and a few parts you can make yourself quite an impressive little telescope in the newtonian style. This is a three part series and in the first part I […]
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Books on telescope Making Making & Enjoying Telescopes: 6 Complete Projects & A Stargazer’s Guide This is a relatively modern book on telescope making (Printed in 1995) and it takes a nice slant on the whole subject by giving you complete details on six different telescope projects ranging from a big dobsonian to a small rich […]
There are of course lots of ways to make a telescope. And it can get quite in-depth. I am going to take a middle of the road approach to this. We will make a pretty standard type of telescope and we are not going to grind out the mirror ourselves. I have bought a little […]
In this part we make the actual telescope. This is the tube assembly I do have a video showing this whole process. You can watch that at the bottom of this page. And here is a picture of the completed tube assembly. This gives you an idea of what it looks like. I walk you […]
How to Build a Telescopes, which are simple and straightforward to use A telescope is, at its most basic level, a device that tends to make a distant thing appear closer. To achieve this, a telescope contains a component objective lens or the basic mirror that gathers light from a faraway target and gets it […]