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I had made 2 camera barndoors before on flimsy Kmart tripods and wished that I had a more solid one that fits on my Tiltall. It did not happen before...
Some of you may have heard me talk about the home made telescope I made when I was a teenager. I often use the OTA on my EM200 GOTO mount but today,...
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Very nice project. Thanks for all the pictures showing us how you did it.
In June 2020 I started off the construction of my 16 f4 reflector, named after the star: Nunki in Sagittarius. The whole building took 10 months as I...
I came up with the idea of buying a cellular 10 blank from BVCTek and making it into a mirror/travel scope. I probably need to get better at making...
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So this thing is like butter - #120 and #220 have each taken little more than an hour. I am going to try to get to polishing by tomorrow night. Might...
I had converted my Z12 to a collapsible using carbon fiber poles a couple years ago. I was never really happy about it because it was a bit bulky and...
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Good job Henk - does it have a significant weight loss?
The base is now 15 kg, the tube 19 kg. That's about 75 US lbs. Hmm that's still the regular...
One of the TSS members offered set of mirrors and I grabbed the chance. He warned me that he had no idea how they were supposed to be configured to...
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Many, many thanks for those links. And I have some familiarity with Mike Lockwood. He was even helping me back in the days (about a year ago) when I...
hello folks. the rebuild is going along quite well! took an old orion deep space explorer Dob apart to clean and fix what ever, found the old focuser...
hello folks! i just desided to upgrade an olde 6 F8 dob and need some advice on placing the focuser. i am going from a helical to a crayford focuser....
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You will need to move the primary mirror forward the difference between the two focusers, if you decide to use the taller one. If the secondary is...
Who would be the ATM that made this mirror?
I come through this request help from colleagues to try to identify the origin, or what was the ATM that...
I do a few ATM projects every year and this year I decided to upgrade the mirror cell of my 18 inch F4.5 scope and to build an 8 inch binoscope. Both...
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HI Matt, the wiffle tree edge support in my case works noticeably better than the belt sling and the glatter sling. Stars are tighter even down low...
The other project this year was an 8 inch F5 binoscope utilising two GSO mirrors bought about 7 years apart ( and the focal length difference between...
Are the objective lenses in the cheap refractors any good? Just thinking. As we know, the cheapo scopes sold in big box stores usually have terrible...
Hi folks -
so - I posted this last Friday and haven't had any responses so far. I am wondering if I maybe put it into the wrong category; DIY, other....
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