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You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X …read more Continue reading DIY Telescope Uses Maker Tools
We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye through a nice telescope. But in most cases, that’s simply …read more Continue reading Low-Cost, High-Gain: A Smart Electronic Eyepiece for Capturing the Cosmos
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct. For his 10″ reflector, [Carl Anderson] once again …read more Continue reading A 10″ Telescope, Because You Only Live Once
Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As anyone who’s spent time with a telescope can tell you, …read more Continue reading DIY Telescope Mount for Stellar Tracking
Some of the largest objects in the night sky to view through a telescope are galaxies and supernova remnants, often many times larger in size than the moon but generally …read more Continue reading All the Stars, All the Time
When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Telescope the Modern Way
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we …read more Continue reading Adaptive Optics Take Clearest Pictures of the Sun Yet
Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there …read more Continue reading Making a Backyard Observatory Replete With Retractable Roof
[Project 326] is following up on his thermal microscope with a thermal telescope or, more precisely, a thermal monocular. In fact, many of the components and lenses in this project …read more Continue reading Thermal Monocular Brings the Heat at 10X
Radio waves travel fast, and they can bounce, too. If you are able to operate a 25-meter dish, a transmitter, a solid software-defined radio, and an atomic clock, the answer …read more Continue reading Dwingeloo to Venus: Report of a Successful Bounce