With reference to the previous article that dealt with the construction of this instrument; So as not to lose the habit to DIY, but above all in order to get rid of the stool needed to reach the eyepiece of the telescope that was in 1,8 meters above the ground. I lowered the same 16 cm, bringing it to much
300F6 “LIGHT”: Mission (equilibration) impossible?….A solution is to equip it with a disc brake! From years, in his beautiful box taped ZAOT (the brand of my favorite aluminizer) I had that mirror Ø305 F 1830 unused. I had bought it for a short time before because it was "gray", i.e. with a good parabolic surface, but happened “among head and neck" (like we say in Italy meaning "by surpise")”, to a “mirror
From the 2003 my car is a Ford Fiesta, on which, after lowering rear seatbacks, also I load the biggest of my home-built dobsonian, which it is a 14 "F5, manufactured following declining from note "Bible" of Kriege/berry "The Dobsonian telescope" after converting from English to metric, The weight of the lower block of my
