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Stories · 2

  1. Suggestions for a Home-Built Telescope

    Ask · Space · · posted by Cliff · from the stargazing-on-new-year's-eve dept. · 37 comments
    hodet asks: "I would like to know if anyone here has built or are planning to build their own telescope. My plan right now is to build an 8" F/6 Dobsonion Reflector based on these plans. The same design can also be found here. The base has been cut and the primary and secondary mirrors are to be ordered shortly. Since I plan on making a few modifications to this design I'd like to know if anyone here has done anything similar or totally original and what thoughts and suggestions you may have. I know it may be cheaper and easier to buy one from Meade, but that's not what I'm looking for."

  2. Connecting A Meade ETX-70AT Telescope To A PC?

    Ask · Hardware · · posted by Cliff · from the how-about-one-of-these-puppies-tied-to-SETI@Home? dept. · 5 comments
    ronys asks: "I've just bought my son (yeah, sure) a Meade ETX-70AT telescope. It's a pretty cool toy, with an RS-232C port and an optional ($$$) cable and software that connects it to a PC. Since there's nice 3rd party software that supports telescope control, I was wondering if anyone has already hacked the pinout of the serial cable?"