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I woke up early to go see Jupiter and Saturn and turns out it’s still really really hard to align this telescope! I took videos in the hopes I’d catch at least one good frame, now to review them and see if that’s true. I got a decent video of Saturn in my low power lens, hope it shows up well as rings instead of fuzzy blob
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With all those upgrades, I was able to mount my phone to my telescope. Recently, the moon finally reached the right phase for it to be visible, so I got great shots of the moon!
With my 6mm high power lens, the moon was super duper detailed. And I realized something amazing: the moon was moving. I was so zoomed in I could see the rotation of the earth! That’s incredible!
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(Part 3 of my adventures with my 3D printed telescope! Previous part)
I tried adding 3 upgrades, but only two of them worked. Check out an amazing moon photo below!
Upgrades My mount is very wobbly. To reduce the wobble I had two ideas: first, place wooden dowels along the diagonals of the sides to make the mount more rigid, and second, print an openocular.com phone holder so I didn’t have to touch the telescope to take pictures with my phone and wobble it.
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