Astronomical Telescope “Hadley” – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian

  • I built a Hadley, and it's pretty amazing. I have seen the rings of Saturn with it- and the moon- WOW. Here's a video I did about it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA076d-gsyY

    Also wrote it up on my website, which has a link to the Hackaday article I wrote on it: https://miscdotgeek.com/3d-printing-the-hadley-114mm-newtoni...

    I still need to build a proper base for it. Balancing it on a chair or some other thing is just no good. It needs to move smoothly. What you think you know, don't realize how pronounced it is until you're watching through a decent telescope, is that the cosmos are on the move!

  • The author mentions that locating metric fasteners in bulk may be a problem.

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    You can order one or one hundred or one thousand and they assemble your order and get it out to you faster than any other provider of fasteners that I have used.

    They have an excellent selection including specialty parts that might be useful for building telescopes.

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    They're the best.

    Overall this looks like an interesting project that is not difficult to make. I may need to level my printer bed and see what happens.

  • Does anyone know of a cool (cheap) way to get adaptive optics in one of these devices?