In Gualdo Tadino, Italy
In Fuenlabrada, Spain
Plumbing material used for
the construction of the telescope:
- Galilean telescope with convergent lenses in the
objective and the ocular.
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50mm diameter PVC pipe.
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Joint for pipe
of diameter 50 mm.
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Female joint
sleeve of 50 mm.
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Male cuff of 50 mm.
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50-25 reduction cup.
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25-20 reduction cup.
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Converging lens
of 1000 mm focal length and 50 mm in diameter.
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Converging lens
of 44.4 mm of focal length of 22 cm in diameter
- Galilean-Kepler’s telescope.
Achromatic doublet lens in the
objective and ocular ramdsem.
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40 mm diameter PVC pipe.
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25 mm diameter PVC pipe.
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Joint for pipe
of 40 mm.
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Joint for pipe
of 25 mm.
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Female joint sleeve
of 40 mm.
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Male cuff of 40 mm.
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32-25 reduction cup.
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25-20 reduction cup.
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Achromatic doublet
of 286 mm of focal length and diameter 40 mm.
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Two converging
lens 59 mm of focal length of 22 cm in diameter.
(Following the instructions done in this
link:
- Galilean telescope.
Objetive with converging lens and ocular with
diverging lens
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50 mm diameter PVC pipe.
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Joint for pipe
of 50 mm.
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50-25 reduction cup.
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25-20 reduction cup.
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Male cuff of 50 mm.
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Female joint
sleve of 50 mm.
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Converging lens
of 1000 mm focal length and 50 mm in diameter.
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Diverging lens
of -66mm focal length and 25cm in diameter.
General guidelines to build a home-made
refractor telescope
1.) The first
thing we have to consider are the lenses that we have, because they determine
the quality of the image the telescope increases and its dimensions.
We have to
consider two characteristics:
a) The diameter of the objective which will
mark the opening (the amount of light that the telescope can collect).
b) The focal distances of the objective and
the ocular.
The quotient:
focal distance of the objective is called focal relation. For values lower than
6 we get a very distorted image, with a bluish halo around and they are
difficult to build.
It is
recommended a value of ratio higher than 8.
The quotient:
focal distance of the objective determines the number of increases.
It is
recommended not to exceed twice the increases of the opening because the image
can be distorted and it would get blurry.(If the diameter is 50 mm the
increases have to be less than 100 mm)
2.)
If we don’t know the focal distance (or if we want to check them) we can
go to an optics to measure the diopters.
DIOPTERS = 1 / FOCAL DISTANCE (in meters)
3.)
Known the lenses diameters and their focal distances, we can set the
distance between the lenses and the diameter of the tubes.
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The lenses have
to be separated at a distance that will be the sum of the focal distances.
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The tube’s
diameters are the same to the lenses diameter (or from the diameter of the
eyepiece we introduce reductions until the eyepiece diameter).
4.) Once
we know the lenses distance, we calculated the length of PVC tube or tubes.
To the length
between the lenses, we subtract the lengths of the pieces that we adapt to the
main tube.
5.)
We cut the PVC to sice, we sand them, paint them black on the inside
with a spray and let dry.
6.) We fit the lenses and parts and we
check that the telescope is working properly. If it doesn’t, we have to correct
the length of the tube.
7.) Made adjustments to attach parts (with
glue, tape…) and decorate with our project logo.
8.) We complete the process by making a
solar filter. To do this, we cut out two rings of cardboard with the diameter
of the tube and a circle of the solar filter that we previously bought. We
paste the two rings, one on each side of the filter circle. Let it dry and
check that it fits well on the end of the telescope tube.
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