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… 