I have posted an updated page showing my current method for fusing thinner sheets of glass together to make highquality telescope mirror blanks Over the last couple of years I have really perfected this method I am can turn out as many as two blanks per week using this technique It is easy and economical Check it out
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A face shield gloves and high quality dust mask are required for this grinding operation i only do it outside the glass blanks have a lot of internal stress that needs to be relieved this is accomplished through annealing the blanks annealing involves heating the blanks back up to 900 degrees slowly so they dont break due to thermal shock
Jul 27 2017nbsp018332held every friday night at oakland californias chabot space and science center the telescope makers workshop is an informal gathering where you can learn how to grind and polish a highquality newtonian telescope mirror and hopefully turn it into your own masterpiece of optics woodcraft and design
Diy grinding high quality telescope lens telescope making supplieshowever no amount of grinding can produce a surface smooth enough or sufficiently transparent to meet the needs of a firstclass telescope objective different techniques are needed while there is still considerable discussion on the subject it appears that polishing is a result of one or more of the following removal wear
Usually wide angle tends to refer to a lens that is wider than 5025mm i like ton consider any lens that is wider than 35mm a wide angle for full frame cameras most wide angles are somewhere in the 1430mm range with anything wider than 14mm generally being considered a fish eye
Jan 22 2013nbsp018332the largest reflecting telescopes currently have objectives larger than 10 m 33 feet the 20th century also saw the development of telescopes that worked in a wide range of wavelengths from radio to gammarays the first purpose built radio telescope went into operation in 1937
Diy grinding high quality telescope lens lens grinding equipment buy online make an apochromatic telescope dec 08 2010 we can also have a refractor telescope with a high quality single objective pcx lens with 120mm and 4000mm focal length if the tube is long we can use two flat mirrors to reduce the sie we all should know but a lens working in
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Jul 17 2006nbsp018332to achieve low telescope magnification use longfocallength eyepieces telecompressor lenses can shorten the effective focal length of some telescopes lowering the magnification of a given eyepiece used with that telescope high telescope magnifications can be obtained by using shortfocallength eyepieces
The 70mm refractor style objective lens highquality and fullglass optics combine to form a megahit in the market these features aid in the delivery of clear crisp and sharp images the product comes off with highquality images in spite of being compact and small the best feature of this telescope
We have a wide array of preprepared kits available for use centered around various high quality telescopes these kits range from matching together a telescope and mount perfectly and leaving the rest to your choice all the way up to completely assembled and ready to go full systems for both imaging and visual astronomy
This is my homebuilt edge grinding machine for grinding down my homecast mirror blanks click to see the whole project this is a 125 inch diameter 15 inch thick lightweight honeycombback telescope mirror blank that i made myself
Lens to eyepiece adapters turn your lens into a telescope ef 3004l lens with right angle eyepiece adapter youve probably heard of quotdigiscopingquot which is using a digital camera with a telescope rather than using a telephoto lens image quality is lower but scopes are often cheaper and if you have one with you why not use it
Dec 30 2013nbsp018332a doityourself galilean telescope makes an excellent and inexpensive starter telescope or science fair project it is limited by its small
Mar 09 2019nbsp018332adams diy pinhole camera and finished zoom lens were made entirely from scratch its absolutely incredible to watch someone mine extract and melt down copper and then use borax sand and soda ash all of which andy collected himself to make glass but damnknowing that it took months of grueling work dozens of attempts and over 30
Instead you can make your own simple 9x magnification galilean telescope at home its affordable yet powerful enough to see many of the wonders the sky has to offer with a focus of 9x this powerful homemade telescope lets you see features on the earths moon and saturns rings as a disk
Large homemade telescope making project google sites diy mirror grinding and telescope making bills homemade telescope making project for the lens grinding tools i used the bottoms from two other jars i did not bother grinding the edges of these tools so that they were nice and smooth i just ground out all the sharp edges chat now
Oct 12 2011nbsp018332page 1 of 5 homemade eyepieces posted in eyepieces so i was looking online to try and see if i could find some guides as to how to design and make your own eyepieces all the ones i found where very rough and cheap alternative eyepieces using pvc pipe and old film container style of diy since i have access to a very good metal and wood shop i thought it could be fun to make my own high
For himself christiaan designed and built his own lensgrinding and polishing machines figure 2 one of the greatest problems with lens grinding is to make a suitable lap by utilising metal moulds with a perfect spherical shape another problem for the huygens brothers was to find glass of high quality and homogeneous in structure
Telescope eyepieces that excel at both use complex lens systems of the highest quality and these do not come cheap using a premium eyepiece cannot always guarantee that you will see more but using a premium eyepiece will always bring out the best in your telescope and will always make your telescope more enjoyable to use
Dec 26 2015nbsp018332maksutovcassegrains were popular back in the 1960s but even then only a handful of amateurs made them and for a very good reason maks are not easier to make then a refractor the corrector has very tight tolerances in terms of radii center thickness and centration the corrector substrate has to be of high quality in terms of homogeneity
Jan 21 2017nbsp018332thankfully there are hundreds of quality telescopes on the market to choose from for those seeking a telescope to observe the moon and our
Celestron has been making highquality telescopes for over 50 years theyve won a heap of awards and have gained a reputation as one of the premier telescope brands on the market today so when they came out with the celestron powerseeker 127eq telescope the astronomy world took notice it has received great reviews and is fast becoming
Additionally we provide highend custom solutions including the application of durable thin film mirror and antireflective coatings were also proud to report that our optics are in space and on the moon a testament to the industrys confidence in the quality of our products
Jul 31 2016nbsp018332well there are many diy telescope making guides on the internet so make sure you check it out i assume that you want to make a refractor the hardest part on making a diy telescope is finding the right optics for your need especially if your b
May 30 2010nbsp018332bought the quotadvanced telescope making techniques quotby allan mackintosh first i made a mirror grinding machinebought some 8quot blanks and set out grindingthe machine would run unattended so that part was okmade the newtonian mountsent the ground blank off for coatingfinally had it all finishedwe looked at
Jan 19 2016nbsp018332diy telescope project my goal is not to build a highquality telescope but rather one that can be easily assembled from cheap and easytofind components the total distance through diagonal from the objective mirror to the eyepiece lens is the sum of their focal lengths
The indoor star test has the wonderful attribute of steady air in a controlled temperature room however it calls for a high quality larger aperture telescope difficult to discern here but this image shows the 13 inch star test rig laid horizontally on a bench aimed at my 205 inch 52cm f5
Catadioptric telescopes use a combination of lens and mirrors to focus light compact catadioptric designs such as the schmidt cassegrain or maksutov telescope have become popular with amateurs in the last 30 years the gregory maksutovcassegrain shown at right uses an aluminized spot on the maksutov corrector lens as a secondary mirror
Oct 20 2011nbsp018332the power of the telescope is calculated by the focal length of your lens divided by 10 in my case a 51x telescope i can assure the image quality is simply amazing this is because the converter doesnt use the entire image area just a small portion in the center which of course is the sweet spot for any lens
Zambuto optical company is a full service custom manufacturer of premium newtonian primary telescope mirrors from 7quot through 24quot diameter special noticewe want to let our customers know that during this timeframe we continue to do business as usual there may be delays with regard to shipments due to outside circumstances beyond our control