Dobsonian Telescope Making

Dobsonian telescope making is for the young as well as the young at heart. Dobsonian telescope making, or any telescope making for that matter, is not an insurmountable task and many Web sites, especially those offering educational toys for children will offer kits for Dobsonian telescope making.

Before we delve into Dobsonian telescope making, however, let's look first at the Dobsonian telescope itself and what it's all about. Indeed, you can't pursue Dobsonian telescope building if you don't know about Dobsonian telescopes, can you?

Dobsonian telescopes are excellent quality and price value, especially considering its good aperture size, for astronomy hobbyists - both those who want to do some Dobsonian telescope building and those who want to buy their telescope ready for us and just do some stargazing.

One of the best Dobsonian telescopes, for those of you interested in telescope making, is the astronomy hobby Celestron StarHopper Telescope. This Dobsonian has an aperture that is six inches wide.

Features of this Celestron Starhopper including a Newtonian styled optical tube with an Altazimuth mount. Its optics include a good size primary mirror at the tube's bottom that is used to collect light and send it to the secondary mirror. This mirror is used to reflect the same light from the side of the tube into the telescope's eyepiece.

When it comes to Dobsonian telescope building, the StarHopper 6 is as easy to make as it is to use for observation. Once assembled all you need to do to look at the heavens is to move the optical tube manually - either from right to left, or up and down.

If you're going to pursue quality Dobsonian telescope constructing, the StarHopper 6 may be the best place to start.