alt Hacker NewsWallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it
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Love this. Thanks for sharing. My friend and I pulled an old Dobsonian telescope of my Dad's from the garage when we were teenagers. We spent hours and hours out with it under the stars, and on cloudy nights I would read a book about telescope construction. Back then, cabinet makers were building the most impressive wood frames. Interesting to see how the technology has changed.
Very cool project and video documentation, really inspiring! As someone who is mechanically inclined and has a decent amount of tools/3D printer, is there any DIY telescope that you would recommend to build as a first foray into the field?
I've never done much with optics, and after reading through a few of your posts, it looks both incredibly challenging and very rewarding.
Quite an impressive build. How hard is it to collimate the telescope? Does it hold the collimation?
Beautiful, like I needed a new crossover of hobbies; btw could this fill a 220 format frame?
You also could save a lot of weight by boring out your plywood base and still be plenty rigid
Very cool project. Been taking my dwarflab mini on hikes instead of the 12” dob ;) , not the same at all but enjoy getting dark sky and some great astro shots.