Self built Telescope

[bluesboy]

I work in Engineering, and I am interested in building my own Telescope. Does anybody have any information about this. I could probably get mirrors and things from the web somewhere. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Gary

[paul mc c]

Orion Optics UK sell mirror sets,they have different grades at different prices.

Good luck with your build.

[Moonshane]

it's an extremely rewarding aspect of the hobby but unless building a scope in excess of 12" you are unlikely to save money over a bought item. see the DIY astronomer sub forum, there's lots of threads in there. the stellafane website is great too.

[floppygoose]

I considered doing this myself some time ago, but by the time I had priced it all up, I found that I couldn't really make significant savings over an off-the shelf Dobsonian reflector. If you do go for it then good luck, quite a few other have done, and you will find lots of threads on SGL to give you guidance.

Phil

[JamesF]

This is where you probably want to start for building your own dob (or any newt, really):

http://stellafane.org/tm/index.html

There's a very interesting and useful book called "The Dobsonian Telescope" by Kriege and Berry, but it has a fairly heavy bias towards monster-size dobs.  SCS Astro sometimes have it in stock, as do Green Witch

James