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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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(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.
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As a tiny part of the New Deal, Hallie Flanagan helped create the Federal Theatre Project in 1935, where the US government funded unemployed actors to make free plays available to all. A big part of those were Living Newspapers: researchers became playwrights and wrote about current events lifted from the headlines to inform people.
The very first Living Newspaper was a hilarious tragedy. “Ethiopia” by Arthur Arent was all about how being invaded during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War was ravaging the country.
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