Cool stuff
This is where I have put all of the stuff that did not fit anywhere else - sort of like a bike shed that stores everything except a bike. I've put in a lot of good links to some cool sites.
Accessories to make
A TRUSS TUBE helps to reduce ambient light. My design has an open tube and sometimes the surrounding (ambient) light can get onto my mirrors.
| Get sheet of matt black cardboard about 80 X 45 cm. |
| Make a cut-out for my finder-scope.Trim the card to size and shape and roll it tightly enough for it to slide inside my tube |
| Let it unroll so it lies flush against my tube and maybe tape it in place - it must not interfere with a clear line of sight |
| You now have a CLOSED telescope tube |
MIRROR DUST COVERS to stop grot getting onto my mirrors.
| "Borrow" some plastic lid covers from the pantry OR |
| Plastic or cork drink coasters might do the trick OR |
| Get some of the same card you used for the Truss Tube. Cut a 125 mm circle and glue on an edge strip about 15 mm deep |
| Make a cylinder 35 mm diameter and 45 mm long from the same card to slide over my diagonal assembly |
Some terrific links to astronomical resources
| Nine Planets - really great introduction to our Solar System | |
| Irish Junior Astronomy Club - terrific stuff here . Are the stars upside down in Ireland? |  |
| PLANET-SCIENCE Games, resources, jokes, experiments | |
| NASA - want to be an austronaught (I sorta meant astronaught, but it looked good so I left it) | |
| COOL-COSMOS - CALTECH's fun stuff | |
| You really want to learn about optics? Arizona University is a great place to start | |
| Optics for Kids - another great resource site | |
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Have you completed your Certificate of Achievement?
I do not technically exist until this is done!
The stuff below was not really necessary - I just put it in to fill the empty hole in the page
Thought you might look like this - ha-ha
I can see more than you
That'll teach Snuffy to look through my eyepiece
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