Homemade telescope

I just built my first homemade telescope.
I used a cement mixer for the tube and mount,
a glass salad bowl for the lens, and duct tape
for everything else. Works great, although
the other night the milky way was looking
a little green, then I realized there was
still a piece of lettuce stuck to the
salad bowl. This scope also shows the
Martian canals really well.

Hey Red,
just add some hidden ranch salad dressing as a liquid
filter on the bowl, and you just might see the gondola's going
down those canals. ;-)
TW



Red Green wrote:
I just built my first homemade telescope.
I used a cement mixer for the tube and mount,
a glass salad bowl for the lens, and duct tape
for everything else. Works great, although
the other night the milky way was looking
a little green, then I realized there was
still a piece of lettuce stuck to the
salad bowl. This scope also shows the
Martian canals really well.

Have Shawn test it out for you, sounds like his kind of scope (If ineed he has
ever seen one).

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(And considerate neighbors!!!)