{"id":16,"date":"2014-04-10T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2014\/04\/the-dobsonian-telescope.html"},"modified":"2014-05-19T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:21:29","slug":"the-dobsonian-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2014\/04\/the-dobsonian-telescope.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dobsonian Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/the-dobsonian-telescope.png\" alt=\"the dobsonian telescope\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/the-dobsonian-telescope.png 290w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/the-dobsonian-telescope-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>&#8220;The design of this telescope is called a Dobsonian, after its inventor John Dobson, who passed away earlier this year. Dobson\u2019s life took an unusual trajectory. He went from being a self described \u201cbelligerent atheist\u201d to a monk in the Vendanta society to co-founding the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers. \u00a0Most of his life was spent bringing the night sky to people around the world and teaching people how to make their own low-cost telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>As a monk, Dobson could not afford expensive materials. He kept the design inexpensive by using a simple mount and cheap materials: wood and cardboard. My Dobsonian was made by the now defunct Coulter Optical Company out of particle board and a cardboard concrete form. Its large 13.1 inch mirror makes it perfect for looking at nebulas, galaxies and star clusters even in light polluted urban areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsimple.com\/2014\/04\/as-above-so-below\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/stellafane.org\/tm\/dob\/builder-photos.html\" target=\"_blank\">Illustration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The design of this telescope is called a Dobsonian, after its inventor John Dobson, who passed away earlier this year. Dobson\u2019s life took an unusual trajectory. He went from being a self described \u201cbelligerent atheist\u201d to a monk in the Vendanta society to co-founding the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers. \u00a0Most of his life was spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}