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EXES: mid-IR Spectrograph for SOFIA
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Building Dobsonian Telescopes
 October 2003
  

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Gathering materials
 

Read the instructions
BEFORE starting

Measuring is hard work


a little help
from our friends

Drilling
a BIG hole

using math
 


street scene

Parallax is
what again?

Do we agree that you
have a problem here?


a helping hand
 

sawing is a
two-person job

Measure twice,
cut once


still smiling
late in the day

how do you
use this thing?

oh my, there are a
lot of parts here!


are we
overwhelmed yet?

just fold twice
to find the center

Got Collimation?
 


this mirror better
be balanced
 		   
 





12 November 2003
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