The objective lens is made by CARTON optics which I bought at the bargain sales of the telescope shop.
The main tube is made from plastics
tube for water .I attached the black seal inside of the main tube and the
draw tube instead of painting black .
And I installed 3 stopper rings inside
of the tube .
The draw tube are consist of some different aperture pipes .The focussing is just to slide in and out .
The most difficult point of making this telescope is the way to supporting the objective lens .
As I got the lens without the cell so I had to make it by myself .
I came to the answer ; I made some C rings (made from also plastics tube) and installed them inside of the main tube to fit and hold the lens .
I made the hood long enough So the length
of this telescope is about 1.1m (3 feet and 8 inch)
It is long but weights is light (total
weight is about 4 kg including tripod) and it require only 3 minutes to
prepare .
Adjusting the optics is just the way ;tilt the objective to reflect the eye image from draw tube back .
I use the 2 oculars ; SWK22 (41
x) and WO13.5 ( 67x) and no problem found in that way .
SWK22
Although I just looked the moon ,Jupiter
and Saturn through this telescope but I recognized It gives better images
than that on the spotting scopes which I use .
I can see many craters on the moon very well and 2 belts on the Jupiter the ring of the saturn clearly .
I haven't painted the plastics tube now but I am going to attach the colored seat on it .
I also want to make a finding scope for this telescope .
When I make this telescope , I refereed
to the web pages such as here ,
Kimura's home page, Lets
make a telescope and may others .Thanks to them .
I bought it at the bargain sale the
same time .
It was the tripod for 60 mm telescope
originally but the mounting part was broken . So I could get it as a cheap
junk parts .
It has Slow motion moving for both
up vertical and horizontal axis .
> How the telescope are attached to the tripod ?
It consist of C rings of plastic tube
.
Which is the same tube of main tube
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The width of the c ring is 4 cm (1.5")
.It is enough to support the main tube .
The C rings are put on the wood base
using the screws .
> How long and how much did it cost to make this telescope?
It takes not so long time to cut and
built the materials .
I gave more time to think the construction
and find the materials .
I think the total time to make it is
about 5 or 6 hours .
Thinking ,finding the materials
and making are all fun .
The total cost of this telescope is
about \25000 (=25 US $) for lens ,tripod , materials.