Some of our friends teamed up to build a telescope from scratch. Out of the available material, we have decided to use the book
How To Build A Telescope authored by a family member of one of the professors of our Institute.
The book says that it takes 3 months to build the telescope. We will be reading the book for a week from now and will start the project in first week of April. Updates about the progress, challenges faced, experiences about the project will be posted to this blog every now and then.
Project Outline:
Get the prerequisites ready : knowledge and material
Prepare a time sheet
Grind the reflector and polish it (100 man hours estimate)
Build the hose
Mount the reflector, diagonal and eye piece into the hose
Do lots of tweaking to get it right… 
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March 24th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
:O
March 25th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Waiting for it to b ready, how is the progress?
And what would b the cost of the whole thing? How costly is reflector?
March 26th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
we havent started any work yet. expected cost is 2 to 3 thousand rupees. reflector will cost around thousand rs.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hi Dipak!
I am also eagre to know about how to build a telescope. I want to purchase your telescope.
see you
chandra
January 7th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
its not for sale. just to satisfy experimenting-zeal. but i can help you build one for yourselves (once we complete ours, if at all)
January 15th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Hi.. Iam also trying the same . Making disk from plate useing hand drill is not practcal. I also searching for red rouge (Ferric Oxide) can you help me ?