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Big DIY Amateur Telescope Project

Posted by timothy on from the not-a-kit-from-the-corner-store dept.

Steve Taylor writes: "News from England. We (crazy English people) have just received a 42" mirror blank, to build an Internet-enabled robotic telescope. We are going to grind and figure the mirror ourselves. This is open source hardware -- everything we do will be freely documented and available to other similarly deranged groups." Good luck, godspeed, and please continue with the same course of treatment.

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  1. Re:Don't be surprised by cgreer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can actually see a number of geostationary
    spy satallites with just a regular 35mm SLR.
    Just point it up at the sky, open the shutter
    and wait. The satallites will actually be the
    little white dots that don't move, and the stars
    will all rotate around the celestial pole.

    You really don't need a bit scope for this.