How Do You Build A Newtonian Reflector Telescope At Home?
The Newtonian telescope belongs to the reflector class of telescopes. Of these, the Dobsonian build of Newtonian style telescopes are the most proliferous among the do-it-yourself amateur astronomy community, mainly because the detailed plans are freely available on the Internet (see references). With the detailed plans detailing many pages of formulas and measurements, this article will provide a generalized overview of what building a telescope via those plans entails. Create the plywood base of the telescope, cutting all pieces to exact lengths and widths per the charts located in the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers plans. The sizes must be measured based on which size of telescope you have chosen to build: the 8-inch diameter telescope or the 10-inch diameter telescope at a fixed f/7 focal length. Be sure to follow the recommendation that each piece is marked with a pencil or crayon, so the parts may be assembled in order as they are given. Since several pieces are close in size
