Although it is simple, it can reveal the craters of the Moon and the satellites of Jupiter. It is also very useful for demonstrating lens aberrations. You really need to build this telescope as a necessary step towards understanding the s...
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/07/how_to_build_a...
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Do not use the diaphragm at first, but leave the objective at the greatest aperture. Point the instrument towards a distant object. Move forward and backward the eyepiece tube until the image is as distinct as possible. You will soon realiz...
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/tele/tele.htm
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To my other WebPages: My Vanity Page; My Deep-Sky Page; How to Build a 13" Travel Scope; Dobsonian Evolution; The San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers; My Fastar CCD Page; This site is a member of the; Amateur Telescope Making Web Ring;
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pages.sbcglobal.net/raycash/manualv2.pdf
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How to build a Dobsonian telescope. Something much bigger and better is due out this year so keep your eye out. :) ... How to build a Dobsonian telescope. Something much bigger and better is due out this year so keep your eye out. :) ... How to Buy a Telescope : Telescope Buying Guide...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbdxcoMATOo
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In its essence, a telescope is an instrument that makes a far away object look closer. To do this, a telescope has a device that collects light from a distant object (objective lens or primary mirror) and brings that light (image) to a focu...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question568.htm
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The workshop of Alvan Clark is featured on this page--a respectful nod to telescope builders of the past. ... As an experiment, I decided to build an eyepiece out of the worst optics that I could find. These lenses had small chips on the edges as well as the center, bad coatings, and lots and lots of small scratches.
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Build Your Own Telescope includes complete plans, step-by-step instructions and 275 illustrations that show you how to build these five telescopes:
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www.willbell.com/tm/tm2.htm
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Believe it or not, this telescope was built almost entirely in an apartment! And, for a city boy who never went out in the garage to help Dad/Ward Cleaver make wooden thingies in the workshop, ... This little site is designed to show what is possible...it's not a plan, nor a "how-to" in the strictest sense of the word;
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www.moonlightsys.com/atm/
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This is how to make a simple telescope using two lenses and a cardboard tube ... Have a guess at how many times larger the image is than the object. In theory if you divide the larger focal length by the smaller one you should get magnification of the telescope.
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www.lightwave.soton.ac.uk/experiments/telescope/telesco...
www.lightwave.soton.ac.uk/experiments/telescope/telescope.html
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