I've had someone point me to sheets of flooring called Proplex that is potentially lighter, folds flat and stick on Velcro is suitable for. Must try this next!
Great idea and I plan to make a dew shield for my Dobsonians (yes you heard that right😂) to exclude extraneous light pollution. Maybe attach the dew heater under the dew shield to prevent insulating the dew shield from the scope.
@@StargazerMan Sorry to hijack: I am building a custom 207mm / 750mm Newtonian. I really liked the video and got what I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to produce this and others. I have an additional question based on this comment. When I finish my scope, it will be 32" (about 800mm) tall. This makes it an F/3.7. I want that light bucket for wide view sky objects. My thinking was that I would just add a tube that slides on dowels to add 10" (254mm) to reduce the FOV, and inturn raise the F/ratio for when I want to shoot planets. I would like your opinion on if this would work as I expect to raise the F/ratio of the scope. My goal is to raise the F/ by a few maybe a 6 or 7 so that the planets are not blindingly bright. Thanks!
Going to try this out with some old EVA foam
Went to Decathlon and bought a black $8 yoga mat that is also 6.5mm thick. Sewed a few velcro bits and got myself a 10" light shield.
Awesome!
I've had someone point me to sheets of flooring called Proplex that is potentially lighter, folds flat and stick on Velcro is suitable for. Must try this next!
I thought of open cell foam, but I'm guessing stick on velcro won't stick.
@@stargazer2042 It may do, I'm going only by my experience from using stick-on Velcro. I think a good polyurethane glue might work.
This is now on my list of Summer projects.
Question: I want to mount my ETX on rings. Are those rings on your ETX125 made by you?
Hi Tom. I bought the ring mounting system for the ETX125 from ScopeStuff.
www.scopestuff.com/ss_stms.htm
What about staplers instead? 🙂
Hi! So do you mean that you can staple the ends together (as opposed to glue/sew?)
Good idea! (I thought so too) but, they rip out too easily.
Great idea and I plan to make a dew shield for my Dobsonians (yes you heard that right😂) to exclude extraneous light pollution. Maybe attach the dew heater under the dew shield to prevent insulating the dew shield from the scope.
Are your Dobs solid tubes? Is the plan to put the light shield on the opposite side of the OTA from the eyepiece?
@@StargazerMan Sorry to hijack:
I am building a custom 207mm / 750mm Newtonian. I really liked the video and got what I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to produce this and others.
I have an additional question based on this comment.
When I finish my scope, it will be 32" (about 800mm) tall. This makes it an F/3.7.
I want that light bucket for wide view sky objects. My thinking was that I would just add a tube that slides on dowels to add 10" (254mm) to reduce the FOV, and inturn raise the F/ratio for when I want to shoot planets.
I would like your opinion on if this would work as I expect to raise the F/ratio of the scope.
My goal is to raise the F/ by a few maybe a 6 or 7 so that the planets are not blindingly bright.
Thanks!
when this ruclips.net/video/GPvmcqYCi5A/видео.html flashed by the screen, I thought it was the sun with a face on it
🌞
Sewing sounds better than my ideas
☺️ I never thought sewing would be needed for astronomy.