How to build a telescope, page 1

Have you tried Google.

Google is a search engine many of us have come to use for common and uncommon questions of various sorts.

Cheers!

[edit on 1/14/2009 by Amaxium]

If you want to build then you will want to go down the route of a Dob. Have a look around the net, but here is a little starter:

www.mydob.co.uk...

Meade make some reasonably priced truss Dobs which get good reviews. As for easy use, then the best would be high-power binoculars.....or, paying money and getting a GPS based telescope (which I have, and can say is excellent).

General store scopes are a no-no really. And one of the most important things (apart from quality of glass/optics) is the mount. Too many people buy a big scope on a tatty mount and then find it useless.

Have fun.

I'm sure there are many more on here who have more advice and more experience than I but it should get you going....Oh, and if you can go to a local astro meet where you will find lots of people who have been where you are and offer good advice.

reply to post by Anti - Government

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Making a telescope is actually pretty easy, the only problem are the costs. A good telescope needs a good lens, and you will probably find that the lens by itself is probably more expensive than a new telescope with the lens already installed.

I bought this book years ago and have used it successfuly twice..both Dobsonian mounts.

www.willbell.com...

I would reccomend it to beginners and seasoned veterans alike..

happy hunting!

p.s. there is an outfit in California as well as one in Conneticut, that will sell you polished glass or slab and the book tells you how to create a matrix pattern for polishing/beveling glass your self.

[edit on 14-1-2009 by deadbang]

Originally posted by Amaxium
Have you tried Google.

Google is a search engine many of us have come to use for common and uncommon questions of various sorts.

Cheers!

[edit on 1/14/2009 by Amaxium]

Very sarcastic...and not original. I use search.wikia.com.

reply to post by Amaxium

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Well yes i obviously have tried google

its far better to get real information from people who have potentially tried this instead of finding some crap on a website that doesnt even work

and i was hoping to actually get some information from people this is a forum website you know !!

reply to post by Anti - Government

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Understandable......

I was in a quirky mood yesterday. I have been doing more research into this and I find that YouTube is still a valuable resource for most How To's as you are probably going to find video showing how it's done.

Here is one promising video which may help.

reply to post by Amaxium

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I think i should apologize aswell im in a bit of a mood recently alot of things going on right now

my bad

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