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Homemade 4.5-inch Newtonian Telescope

A self-built amateur telescope, one of the first steps into hands-on astronomy.

Homemade 4.5-inch Newtonian Telescope

Built a 4.5-inch Newtonian reflector telescope by hand, an early hands-on project that grew directly out of learning to observe the sky at the Astronomical Society of Mahmoud Mosque and watching the 2009 solar eclipse.