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• Telescopes
  • Sillily Simple Refractors
  • Reflector Telescopes
    • 114 mm 'Hadley' Newtonian Telescope
• Games
  • Interstellar Invertebrates

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Sillily Simple Refractors

Since I've learned how to make optical systems, telescope inclusive, I have been extremely excited at the prospect of designing my own. I've as of now made a couple of refractor telescopes in Keplerian configuration at hope with pieces of cardboard and random lenses I've owned/found at the Optics college at the University of Arizona.

The Pizza Box Telescope

Reflector Telescopes

Passionate about improving upon the simple refractors I made to try and observe Jupiter's Galilean moons and avoid chromatic aberrations, I needed to make a reflecting Newtonian!I started with the 114 mm 'Hadley' project that many amateur astronomers have done, and I look forward to the future adventures I embark on in telescope-crafting!

114 mm 'Hadley' Newtonian Telescope

One of the projects I urgently and passionately wanted to work on after making the pizza box telescope and other simple refractors was to make a reflector telescope. A professor at the University of Arizona, Dr. Michael Nofziger, advised I needed to start with a simple Newtonian with premade mirrors, which was a piece of useful guidance where I orignally wanted to grind and polish a glass mirror blank myself. He directed me towards ordering a spherical main mirror on Amazon and crafting a Dobsonian mount that I could try to build.
After that conversation, I found the 114 mm Astronomical Telescope "Hadley" - an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian (link to www.printables.com) I have yet to actually go for this, but, in the midst of Winter Break, I'm looking at purchasing the materials to make the "Hadley" project happen! Progress will be reported here.
Update 01/27/2024: I finished building this telescope this weekend! It was a phenomenal experience and I've learned a lot! I'm excited to write up about my experience here.

What telescope comes next?

I would really love to pursue the following projects:

• A radio telescope?
• Pocket-sized telescope? (idea (Youtube))
• A bigger telescope than the 114 mm 'Hadley'?

Interstellar Invertebrates

Interstellar Invertebrates is...

• An open-world mystery
• A game with no specific objectives, founded by your own curiousity
• Inspired by Outer Wilds

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