My 4" DIY Refractor had first light last year (Nov 2008).
Rendered crisp images of moon, jupiter & saturn with little
false colour,this achromat was bought from CN classifieds.
Cradle & lens adapter was machined. Optical tube assembly
weighs 8 kg's, it's quite heavy for 4" (100mm)
refractor telescope.
Right from procuring the aluminium tube to powdercoating, i took 2 months to complete the entire project (only sat & sun),in fact it's quite fast!!!! Most of the work done by me, like cutting the tube, filing, drilling, threading & painting work (inside of the tube). Aligning the optical path was most difficult part of all, but it was bulls eye...everything was perfect like a factory fit, worked cool. Did lot of running around to get the right kind of material for the project. Scope looks professional and performs like one....image quality is extremely good!!! i am quite satisfied with this project.
Stages of development
Moon picture through my refractor
some very serious work. congratulations on a fine job. :-)
ReplyDeleteHi, I am Prabhakar from Trivandrum. Works for the Income-tax Department. I am an amateur astronomer and used to homebrew things. I am also a HAM, call sign VU2PBT The work you are doing is really remarkable. My heartiest congratulations. Please keep it up.
ReplyDeleteI would like to send you few photographs of my homebrewed reflector and also an equatorial platform.
With regards,
Prabhakara
vu2pbt@gmail.com