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Starting to build a 240mm Newtonian

More aperture is better. I’ve started to build a 240 mm Newtonian with some mirror blanks from Tammilasi and knowledgeable help and grinding materials from Teknofokus.

The first task was to grind the 240 mm diameter (40 mm thick) borosilicate mirror blanks flat on each side. This took around 1.5 hours per side using 60-grit silicon carbide and grinding against a flat steel plate.


See also mirror grinding video by The Sky at Night/BBC.

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2 Responses to “Starting to build a 240mm Newtonian”

  1. anders says:
    July 30, 2008 at 21:08

    I’ll try to blog about updates to the telescope project, and also post some pics and thoughts to the forums:

    Astronetti, in Finnish:
    http://foorumi.avaruus.fi/index.php?topic=2784.0

    Cloudynights (probably the largest astronomy forum out there)
    http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2550576/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1

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