Dobsonian telescope scale

Hi all!
I´ve been searching and ther´s almost nothing on the internet about how to make a homemade dobsonian telescope scale, so I decided to make one myself so all of you that have a dobsonian classic telescope can make one and improve your skills in astronomy.
This is very useful if you have some software that tells you the coordenates of altitude and azimuth.

Now let´s begin with this project:

Step 1 Materials and tools

For this project i used:

  Plastic for printing the scales.
  A dremel to cut out the holes and cut the circles.
  And some other tools to make the scales fit in good enough and to put the angles correctly.

So as you can see you don´t need much to make this scales.

Comments

[gmartin2000]

Nice job! I built a set last year and influenced three other members of my club (ASEM) to add them. I concur with Starry night. My pointers are magnetic. Calibration is as easy as
1] Finding a star
2] Getting its ALT/AZ coordinates from Starr Night
3] The pointers are set accordingly.

Here's a link to my "circles" (they are near the end of the page):
http://tinyurl.com/Al-Woods-scope

[maewert]

I love the videos!

Best Wishes.

[georgeATM]

How you aquire alt-az coordinates for your target? Do you use a particular program ? did you write it yourself?

[dani1x]

I have a program called starry night that came with my telescope, is a quite good software to use and is my favourite. There are lots of these tipes of programs, also for phones. If you have an IPhone you´re lucky couse there are lots of apps that can help you.