Making a Dobsonian Telescope

May be i haven't  mentioned that i am a sky fanatic. I consider myself lucky in this case to actually pursue what i love. i love to spend nights under the sky finding constellations. now that i have good compainion with me its going to be a whole new adventure.

                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                MY WORK PLACE AND OLD SCOPE 

It was about 2pm i was up on the terrace. it wasnt the type of sky i was expecting but a beautiful one.

i was showing my friends the constellation orion. just then i came across  a white hazy object not that clear but truly seducing. but there was a problem i couldn't get a good view of it because my scope wasn't that good. i decided that day i would need a new scope. 

later when i browsed through some good websites i found out that almost all good scopes were out of my budget. so i ventured into the world of amateur telescope making. i  downloaded some good books on how to make a telescope browsed through it for a week. I came up with a design{ not at all innovative a bookish one}. made a notebook and plotted  the designs and the materials needed  .it was a bit confusing in the start but by the end of the month i was able to "CONVINCE MYSELF" to go ahead with the plan. 

I wouldn't like to bore you with the details of how i got the mirror and other stuff. but i would like to tell you that "resources are not scarce our knowledge is". having shipped everything in a months time. 

i embarked on  my mission. with the help of my carpenter i built this beautiful scope   

INCOMPLETE ONE 

THE SECONDARY CAGE 

TOP VIEW 

THE PRIMARY CAGE {without the mirror}

THE SECONDARY MIRROR {this mirror is now broken :( }

THE ROCKER 

THE COMPLETE SCOPE 

{Sorry this photo was on another device and i couldn't connect it with my mac}

That brings us to the end of the mission. ignoring some mistakes in the scope it is  pretty good. 

I want to share a few things i learned during the making not the technical ones but about life.

i came across some obstacles one of which and the most important one  according to me was convincing myself that i could do it. i found out that many people who like something are note able follow up on that. i feel that one should not worry the about the obstacles  that comes across the path as they a bound to come and tackling them is fun, believe me it will boost your self-confidence and you all feel proud of yourself. it will make your thinking better and the most important thing you won't be reluctant on accepting the challenges that come across you or the ones you create. 

Anyone who is interested in the details and the mathematics of this please email me ill give you the details and the pdf of the books i referred. 

My diary of quotes

  Reacently i started to note down some good quotes in my diary. I would like to share some of the good ones i have come across.

    
                                                "When one door of happiness closes ,
                                                             another opens,
                                         but we often look so long at the door closed
                                   that we do not see the one that has been opened for us"
                                                                                                    - Helen keler

                                          "Many of the things you can count, don't count,
                                            many of things you cannot count , really count.
                 
                                                                                                  - Albert einstien

 
                                              " Work as though you would live forever , and
                                                       live as though you would die today."

                                                    "If everybody is thinking alike,
                                                      then some body isn't thinking."

    
                                                            "we can do no great things,
                                                      only small things with great love."
                                                                                         -Mother Teresa
                                                  

                                                    " service to others is the rent you pay
                                                        for your room here on earth"
                                                                                                 - Mohammed Ali

                                            Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
                                                                                        -Mahatama Gandhi
   
           
   

What would be the 3 things you would like to do before you die?

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals

   Awesome person ! thats all i can say. how many of us have realy dared to pursue our dream. for all those who thinks all this is bulshit then someone has already proven you wrong. Hope this provides inspiration for those who have lost faith in themselfs.

New start

      Has been a while since i last posted something on my blog. I do not know why i stopped it when people were reading it . my friend recently mailed me saying dude why have you stopped posting. I sat that night and thought about it and i came to a conclusion that i will post atleast once a week.

     I might be a bit busy these days but its my belief that one always takes out time for what he loves no matter how busy he is.

LIfe is so beautiful....

Our earth has so much to offer us but we rather ignore it or we never realise it.
lets scroll through the world we have never been to .
lets stop enjoy these beautiful sights of nature which we never appreciated.

                                                        Low clouds over a volcano

                                                             This one takes a moment to figure out 

                                                             Wonder what it's pointing to?

                                                                 Luminescence is beautiful

                                                                       It's nice to have friends!

                                                           The world going to sleep..

                                                                Very interesting patterns

                                                                    The world awakens.

                                                                     I want to live here

 

                                                Do you have them in something smaller?

 I would love to know how this happened.

How wonderful is this wildlife?

Niagara Falls at night.

Ahhhhh...

Beats a Beautyrest innersprings .

How Majestic!

How austere!

Hope you remembered to fill the tank!

Winter in the Smokies.

Slippery when wet!

Safety note: Never go swimming alone. 

Now, that's a shower.

Put 'em up, go on, put 'em up !!

A dandelion covered with dew.

Just beautiful...

simply amazing

Even on your darkest day there is a silver lining!

Life Is SO Beautiful!!!!

please add your comments on these photos.

My Favourite Philosophy

very inspiring presentation the thoughts in it are wonderful. really makes us think about it for sometime.

My Favourite Philosophy

THESE INVENTIONS ARE REALLY AWESOME.

                
                           Hotel offers free meal to guests who are willing to generate electricity

The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros).

Disco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor

All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power. So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden. The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs.

                                   
                            Company creates a desktop printer that doesn't use ink nor paper

Who says printers only use paper to print documents? It's time for you to meet the PrePeat Printer then. Different from conventional printers, PrePeat adopts a thermal head to print on specially-made plastic sheets. These plastic sheets are not merely water-proof, but could be easily erased, just feed the sheets through the printer again, and a different temperature will erase everything or just write over it. Also claimed by the manufacturer, such one sheet could be used up to 1,000 times so that you'll reduce your expenses on paper for sure.

                                  University constructs a green roof as a gathering place

Green design is an enormously popular trend in modern architecture, just take a look at this amazing green roof at the School of Art , Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore . This 5-story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.

Designer creates a sink that uses wasted water to grow a plant

Made of polished stained concrete, the Zen Garden Sink has a channel that allows the water used while washing your hands to water a plant. Created by young Montreal designer Jean-Michel Gauvreau the sink comes in single or double basin model. The sink is designed in a way you won't get your plants all soapy. There is a main drain at the bottom of the basin for soapy grime. Your little plant friend just gets whatever you choose to dole out.

           Designer creates a shower that forces you to leave when you've wasted too much water

20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing. That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting. So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water

Designer creates light-switch that changes colors to teach children how to save energy

Teaching the importance of energy conservation is the goal of this design from Tim Holley. He calls it Tio, and it's a ghost-shaped light switch that gives kids a visual reminder of how much energy they've used by leaving lights on. Tio starts out green and smiling. If the light is left on for more than four hours, he turns yellow and looks shocked. And if you dare to leave that light on for more than eight hours, sweet little Tio turns into a raging red hulk, complete with frowny mouth and angry eyes. But he won't just visually remind your kids about their energy habits; information from the light switch is sent to Tio's computer program so the entire family can see how they're doing. In a brilliant piece of visual positive reinforcement, Holley's program lets kids grow a “virtual tree†which gets bigger and healthier the more energy they save.

              Environmental company creates a staple-free stapler to avoid staple pollution

Staples are supposed to be so bad to the environment that a company decided to create a staple-free stapler. This product promises to make collation eco-friendly. Instead of using those thin metal planet-killers, the staple-free stapler "cuts out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch up to five pieces of paper together." You can even order them customized with your corporate logo so you can, you know, brag about what your company is doing to stop the staple epidemic

                             Designer creates an iPhone charger powered by a hand grip

A green idea that gives you a great hand workout as well. Charge your iPhone by a hand grip! This concept is called You can work it out, designed by Mac Funamizu,