Assembly of my homemade collapsible 10" f/4.7 dobsonian telescope

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Assembly of my homemade collapsible 10" f/4.7 dobsonian telescope

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Жыл бұрын

Over the past 2 years or so I designed and build this 10" truss-style travel dobsonian telescope. The video shows the assembly sequence when going from collapsed "suitcase" form to fully ready for observation.
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Music: I'm Letting Go
Musician: Josh Woodward
URL: www.joshwoodward.com/
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Пікірлер: 39

@walterrumohr7090 Ай бұрын

Very impressive design.

@jerrybassett7695 Жыл бұрын

My best friend, Tom Noe, invented and produced Teleport Telescopes. While his were much easier and quicker to set up, this would have really been impressed him with the compactness and design innovations of your scopes; truly a work of art.

@GamerAntigo 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful project. I followed your process through the forum, wonderful solutions like 3D projects or secondary support, for example. Your project and Roel's are my inspirations. Greetings from Brazil

@SterremanWillie Жыл бұрын

Very nicely done! Amazing to fit a whole dobbie in a suitcase!

@dumitruhociung856 Жыл бұрын

Lovely scope mate, and very ingenious solutions to a lot of challenges!

@markleeman3565 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dumitru!

@Sergey_Sergeev Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@DobDude Жыл бұрын

Very clever design! For 10" it's very compact.

@tonypirera8386 Жыл бұрын

Omg what you done was totally amazing

@Asifkhan31416 Жыл бұрын

Superb work!

@jonathanbtodd Жыл бұрын

Thay is a work of art. Beautifully done.

@Reshad77 10 ай бұрын

Well done Mark! Neat scope 👏

@ericbucklin3382 11 ай бұрын

I love your design that is pretty slick. Thank You for sharing

@wd5jlr 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful.

@streetshooters Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@misaelescobarruiz1193 6 ай бұрын

Muy buen teléscopio amigo la astronomia es fascinante

@ranjitneelakandan9551 2 ай бұрын

Amazing! Did you grind/polish the mirror yourself ?

@markleeman3565 2 ай бұрын

No, I took the mirror from a scraped Skywatcher 250mm newton.

@glennsmith3199 5 ай бұрын

This is a wonderful design...do you have patterns to share are sell ?

@markleeman3565 4 ай бұрын

Thank you. Unfortunately I do not have any drawings.

@andreguttesen8982 2 ай бұрын

such a joy to watch. have you used for astro photography.?

@markleeman3565 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! No, I use it solely for visual observation. Since it doesn't track it is also not very useful for AF.

@tootnguyen2001 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this amazing achievement. Do you have plans to create more for sale or provide construction plans and parts list?

@markleeman3565 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I am not planning to build more. At this point I do not have really useful plans to share, I think. I have to think about how to make and share some in a useful way. It would certainly involve some time and effort to do so...

@GenghisKhanSchmitz 6 ай бұрын

This is a great design. I have an old Coulter Odyssey 13.1” that I’d like to rebuild to make it portable. Do you have measured drawings and a parts list available for this design?

@markleeman3565 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind comment. Unfortunately I do not have drawings for my telescope.

@NielssBohr 3 ай бұрын

Very nice telescope. How did you make up the plans for it?

@markleeman3565 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I designed the entire telescope using 3d CAD (Fusion360)

@JM-yd7rq 4 ай бұрын

would be good to see your mirror cell and inside the mirror box

@markleeman3565 4 ай бұрын

There's a forum thread showing the telescope build, see fi this post: www.astroforum.nl/threads/bouw-van-een-25cm-kofferdobson.1470108/post-1528088. It's in Dutch, but the pictures tell al lot already I think.

@user-vz2lq6dz2b 7 ай бұрын

Mark, why do you only use two screws to collimate the primary?

@markleeman3565 7 ай бұрын

The two collimation knobs are at a 120degree separation, the third point is a screw that is just set once en left unchanged in the field. The two knobs can be reached with my hand while looking through the cheshire in the focuser, the third screw is too far away (or my arms to short ;) ) and not necassary to adjust.

@brianhayward8240 8 ай бұрын

Excellent build, I'm also building a home made scope modeling after the designs from Roel. Goal is to have something I can put under an airline seat (minus the poles). You made some interesting tweaks to his original design. Are those round things stuck on the underside of the mirror cell counterweights?

@markleeman3565 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, those are weight, ~300grams each. Those are to have better balance, the scope still needs the elastic cord to prevent it to sag with an eyepiece put in, but it tends to be more stable with those weights applied.

@brianhayward8240 7 ай бұрын

Getting close to having mine completed now too. Same thing with mine, just an elastic band isn't enough to make it stable - must have some counterweight on the bottom. Do you have any info on the dew control system you built as well? Batteries / resistors? @@markleeman3565

@brianhayward8240 6 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity, was the outer radius of your bearings?

@markleeman3565 6 ай бұрын

The attitude bearings have a radius of 213mm.

@joelmendoza9401 7 ай бұрын

Nice build! What did you use for the altitude bearing?

@markleeman3565 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I cut the "bananas" out of 18mm berch plywood, finished with couple of layers of varnish. The bearing surfaces them selves are teflon pieces on the rocker box side and stardust formica on one of the two "bananas", the other one is just covered with varnish. It seems a bit odd to have formica on just one; the reason is that at first I had plasic matt window film on them, but this turned out to be too smooth. Just varnish was somewhat better but still at the smooth side, adding formica on one of the two seemed exactly fine (so I left it like that).