Telescope
Building Projects
Building your
own telescope is a lot of fun and you often wind up with something better than
you can buy without spending a lot of money. Over the years I have developed
several building projects that embody design features that I think are useful
and significant. No one design is perfect or ultimately desirable but they are
the result of ideas that have occurred to me that may be useful to others or
even inspire better ideas. Anyhow, I give you actual construction photographs
and tell you exactly how I did what I did.
These telescopes use things I have developed that contribute to the very best in astronomical observing such as conical mirrors, curved vane spiders and my own designs for simple mirror cells and fan mounts. These telescopes work extremely well and deliver amazing views - as good or better than anything else you can but - at any price.
Click on picture to go to project.
-------------------- Ten Inch f/6 Truss Tube Newtonian
-------------------- Eight Inch f/8 Truss Tube Newtonian
-------------------- Eight Inch f/6 Solid Tube Newtonian
-------------------- Curved Vane Spider and Holder