Hi all,
I've been looking around the site here for a while, and I must say that it's very interesting, and I have always found the heavens to be of great interest. I'm in crispy Canberra, and I've been thinking about putting a telescope together, and was hoping to get some advice from some wiser heads.
At the moment I know only a little about telescopes. As well as the telescope as a whole, I'm also interested in the process of constructing a telescope, thus my first question. For a noob, am I biting off too much first up by trying to build the whole scope (bought mirrors)? From what I've been looking at, I was considering probably a 10" dob. The whole construction doesn't seen too complex but I don't know if there are any obvious pitfalls to look out for.
Again, with not much telescope experience, what sort of expectations should I have of this sort of scope?
I'm sure that I can probably think of plenty of other questions, but they can wait for another post at the moment.
Cheers
Hoopa