MY 100 mm Refractor Telescope

My 4" 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, my father, MR Anil Kumar 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!!! me and my father are quite satisfied with this project. visit my dads blog:http://anilmn.blogspot.com/