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Old 18-07-2017, 11:19 AM
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ZeroID (Brent)
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Hey, excellent work using all the local resources available. It's all about function and not necessarily form. My first build looked like a plumbers nightmare with alum struts and large wooden boxes but it got me well and truly started.
I rebuilt it about a year later ( 10" F5) into a Serrurier Truss lightweight OTA and have since built another 4 (I think) scopes of various focal lengths and diameters. Some of them just for fun.
Hang on to the spherical mirror, you might get all ambitious one day and turn it into a Schmidt (SP?) camera, a weird beast which works with even weirder optics.
Keep us posted on your progress and projects, plenty of sage advice and skills to tap into from everyone here. Good on you to get the young fellow out there too, hope he enjoys and learns more.

Cheers
Brent
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