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You all probably won't believe this but over the years I have had a few ideas to build various telescopes..I have only built two in my time..one using a shaving mirror in a balsa frame with a microscope eye piece... the seven images in that one were quite sharp ... I did build a decent 10 inch with a fork mount ... It worked great.
But I have give thought to making a blank using pottery clay to approximate shape and firing it with plate glass such that you would have a glass surface atop of the fired clay ..I think that would work..I had plans to gather crystal from the rain forest down the road from the old place and make my own glass. But I must say once I saw what time exposures would show up I lost interest in big scopes.
One thing I notice with the various big scopes once completed you don't hear about them any more..I suspect they all would have problems that when encountered the proud owner perhaps loses interest.
Alex
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