Handmade Telescope Making

There are many types of telescopes in the world today. Some are super massive modern marvels and others are just your regular every day telescope that we have become accustomed to. Ever since I was a boy I was fascinated with space, the stars, and telescopes and the wonders that lay in our universe waiting to be discovered. I had always dreamed of having one of my own but they were always too expensive, these days that isn’t as much of an obstacle, as technology advances things become easier to access, but in the era of the internet and the growing wealth of knowledge combined with the many DIY resources available to us today – nothing should be an obstacle when you can make your own! Nothing was an obstacle for the explorers of the past, they were able to fashion their own rudimentary telescopes with nothing but some ingenuity and the craving to explore the cosmos that they barely understood at the time. So lets go through a little bit of a brief history of telescopes, and then explore how you can create your own, fueled with some inspiration from this epic home made telescopes!! I hope that this resource helps someone who wants to get into stargazing, or anyone that is already into astronomy that wants to take it to the next level and build themselves an awesome telescope (DIY FTW!).