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Telescope upgrade 1: basket

(Part 2 of my adventures with my 3D printed telescope!) I printed a collimation helper and a basket! The collimation helper helped me find out that I thought I was collimated, but was actually misaligned. With proper collimation, I went out again and took this new picture of Venus. To the eye, collimation didn’t seem like it did anything, because my telescope and its mount was just so wobbly it looked the same to the eye as before. Read More

rocket today

i hope the rocket goes away properly (note from 2025: the JWST space telescope launched flawlessly!)