You can also make this mount out of 19 mm plywood, or laminated wood. If there’s one “must read” and “must own” book on building a Dob, its The Dobsonian Telescope by David Kriege & Richard Berry. Then in 1998 I read Dave Kriege and Richard Berry’s excellent book The Dobsonian Telescope (Willmann-Bell 1997), a manual for building large Newtonian reflectors to an optimized Dobsonian design. About this book: The Dobsonian Telescope, A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes tells how you can build a state-of-the-art Dobsonian telescope using readily available materials and supplies. “The Dobsonian Telescope, A Practical Manual For Building Large Aperture Telescopes.” By David Kriege and Richard Berry, Willmann-Bell, Inc., 1st Edition, 1997. A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers.Dobson's telescopes featured a simplified mechanical design that was easy to manufacture from readily available components to create a large, portable, low-cost telescope. Do a Google search for telescope plans and the first page of results has links to a number of sites that provide easy to follow plans. “Horizons, Exploring the Universe,” Chapter 5, “Astronomical Tools, By Michael A. H��V˖�6��+��z,����y�I��I�d�v�d!��X�,��r��o�\�����=@��^@O�&��@h�^=yqYE)�_KȔ�A�+)T��t͊�꓁�=H��߮$�O���B ���G �U
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* To build an even bigger telescope, read The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes, by David Kriege and Richard Berry.