"Boat" telescope
My daughter is sick so I have to stay home if she needs me. There is
light rain from Fay so no working on the boat. So..........start a project I have been planning, a boat telescope. I like casual astronomy just a little better than 7X50 binocs and I know about optics and ground a telescope mirror when I was a kid. So, this project is a 4" diameter mirror of only 20" focal length and low magnification for very wide field of view. After 1st half hour of rough grinding, I have a definite bowl in the mirror. |
"Boat" telescope
wrote in message ... My daughter is sick so I have to stay home if she needs me. There is light rain from Fay so no working on the boat. So..........start a project I have been planning, a boat telescope. I like casual astronomy just a little better than 7X50 binocs and I know about optics and ground a telescope mirror when I was a kid. So, this project is a 4" diameter mirror of only 20" focal length and low magnification for very wide field of view. After 1st half hour of rough grinding, I have a definite bowl in the mirror. Put that aside and build a miniature version of this instead: http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...or_000924.html Eisboch |
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