6-inch F4.3 Telescope

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V1 (2017)

This was my first homemade telescope, and the only one I currently possess with a homemade mirror.. I ground and polished the mirror myself in August 2017 when I was 14 years old. The mirror is very good, but none of the structures I threw it in were anything resembling decent - though it did win 1st place Junior award at Stellafane 2018. I had a lot of good views with it, but dismantled it after a while. This scope made it into Sky & Telescope in September 2018. Mk I

V2 (2018)

The second incarnation of the structure made it into TIME, The Guardian, and National Geographic. It had a single-speed Moonlite focuser and a slightly improved mount.

Mk II

V3 (2024)

The most recent version of this telescope uses 3D-printed parts printed on my Bambu P1S out of ASA and PLA, a fiberglass tube from an older telescope, and sits atop a Vixen Super Polaris mount. I added a dual-speed Moonlite focuser and printed a curved spider for spike-free stars. I would like to put the scope on an alt-az mount for observing in the future, but for astronomy outreach the Super Polaris works quite well even without a drive.

Mk V