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A girl and her (homemade) scope

Started by Sunwolf, 10/23/2008 07:13AM
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Posted 10/23/2008 07:13AM | Edited 10/23/2008 07:24AM Opening Post
Dawn Grove
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Browsing through stuff and found some pics and thought I would share. This scope started out as a bet and became a member of the family. He is a great little planet-hunter and kids love him!

Here is the url to a page with pics of me building him. You can see me gettin' dirty! wink
http://www.sun-wolf.com/mort.html

Dawn

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Nice Dawn, great little scope. grin
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That's a good looking little scope. I'm glad you won your bet!

clear skies,
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That's really cool Dawn, especially the pics of you building it.

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Posted 10/25/2008 02:57PM | Edited 10/25/2008 02:58PM #4
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After much back and forth over it my plan of attack is....

Build a sonotube 8" dob because budget is very tight right now. Then I am going to save up to build a 12" truss. I found a pic of me polishing a mirror a while back.

Dawn

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Awesome! 8)
Love the pics of you, polishing the mirror for Mortimer, and handling the power tools... excellent! wink


Keep it up Dawn!
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