Building/printing Hubble telescope scale 1:7 (finished!)

[Chriske]

One of the last things that will be mounted are these three little guys.
They are needed as last balance control of HST.
Two mission specialist (Michel/Chris) and the third (Marc) is the guy taking care of the finances to build this HST

 

[Stu]

3 hours ago, Chriske said:

One of the last things that will be mounted are these three little guys.
They are needed as last balance control of HST.
Two mission specialist (Michel/Chris) and the third (Marc) is the guy taking care of the finances to build this HST

 

Brilliant! 👍👍

[Gina]

Chris has developed his own design of 3D printers that produce amazing results.  He's also very clever with CAD.

[Stub Mandrel]

6 hours ago, Chriske said:

One of the last things that will be mounted are these three little guys.
They are needed as last balance control of HST.
Two mission specialist (Michel/Chris) and the third (Marc) is the guy taking care of the finances to build this HST

 

Excellent! Is that a freely available STL file?

[Chriske]

View from another angle while working on HST today.
SaturnV in the right corner is the one I made before, it is 2m high

 

[Chriske]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Excellent! Is that a freely available STL file?

As I said before Neil,
That is the only item in this project I did not draw myself. Downloaded it from the net. Don't remember which site, GrabCad or Thingiverse.
At the same scale (1:7) these guys are 25.5 cm high. In fact mine should be a bit larger, I'm 1.94m..😁

[Chriske]

This the one Neil...😉

[Stub Mandrel]

11 hours ago, Chriske said:

View from another angle while working on HST today.
SaturnV in the right corner is the one I made before, it is 2m high

 

Thanks for the link.

Hubble makes the Saturn V look tiny! Would be great to visit the museum one day.

(You do realise there are places that would pay you to make exhibition models of that quality...)

[Chriske]

You're all welcome to visit our public observatory.
Beside the things I showed you during these builds there's lots to see here.
We do have a 400mm RC + a few smaller scopes, a planetarium --> room for 40 people in comfortable (rotating) chairs. During shows people can rotate the backs of the chairs backward.
Auditorium + 3 different large rooms for the 16 courses that start(each year) mid September. I do the course 'Telescope making advanced'.
And together with another Urania member(Michel, that other mission specialist..😁) I started building models like this HST.
Last year I printed 4 SaturnV rockets, HST almost finished now.
Next we will build two Falcon9 rockets. One version is a 'ready to be launched(with Fairing) version, and the second will be only the first stage that just has landed, well covered in soot of course
Meanwhile on one of my printers I'm busy printing all the parts for an even bigger SaturnV rocket. This time it'll be 4.1 meter high. Crawler, Launch-platform, and LUT included. Goal for this SaturnV was open door mid Sept. But due Corona this project is postponed and a new deadline to finish that project is open-door 2021.

[Chriske]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

(You do realise there are places that would pay you to make exhibition models of that quality...)

I know Neal, but doing that, I lose my hobby.
Now I'm having fun, making these things at my own pace.
You're not the first pointing that out to me  btw...😉
Thanks for the kind words btw

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, Chriske said:

I know Neal, but doing that, I lose my hobby.
Now I'm having fun, making these things at my own pace.
You're not the first pointing that out to me  btw...😉
Thanks for the kind words btw

I understand, having seen a hobby become (in part) my job, I know what happens!

[Chriske]

Done..!!
Most probably these are the last pictures.
We're very happy with the result.

 

[Gina]

Wonderful - well done - superb job. 

[markse68]

Amazing work Chris!

 

[Stu]

That really is amazing! Would love to see it, whereabouts are you?

[Chriske]

Urania...😉

[Stub Mandrel]

21 hours ago, Chriske said:

Urania...😉

I'm afraid  I had to use Google Translate as my grasp of Flemish is tenuous. You may be horrified to discover that Google treats it as Dutch...

Actually, it does a very good job (which isn't surprising given the shared roots).

I am impressed by the website and will definitely head for Urania if I visit Belgium again.

[Chriske]

52 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

.....and will definitely head for Urania if I visit Belgium again.

[Chriske]

One last picture.
A fourth astronaut is added to HST today
Mission specialist Koen is busy installing HST's corrective optics...
C.O.S.T.A.R...😁

[Swoop1]

Just caught up with this one Chris.

A fantastic build. well done sir!

In answer to a question you posed earlier in the thread, I think the handholds are coloured yellow to make it easier for the astronaut to see the bits of the HST they are allowed to use as handholds. grabbing some of the other projections could damage the telescope.