Make Telescopes: Explore The Heavens Now!
- June 22, 2010, 5:52 am
For those who decide to make telescopes it is a fascinating hobby. Telescopes are usually designed to perform particular kinds of work. In general, for visual work, low-ratio telescopes with their wide fields are useful for comet seeking, variable star work, and the like. The higher ratios are used in planetary study, double star observations, and in other fields where high powers and fine definition are required. Anyone can make telescopes though, don’t be scared off by technical terms.
From the experience gained by those involved in amateur telescope making, it has been found that the most practical and popular instrument for amateur use is the 6-inch f/8 Newtonian reflector. Its concave mirror is 6" in diameter and its focal length 48". The delicate task of
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