My wife says I'm insane when I get an idea to do something and it shows in this project. 4 weeks start to finish (is anything ever really finished??). Wish I had actually counted the hours, but suffice it to say there were hundreds. I have three day weekends that were totally devoted to this project. About 18 hours each Fri. Sat. and Sunday. Every day after work during the week from 6:00 PM to sometimes 3:00 AM.

Anyway, here is a picture of my daughter Samantha getting "first light" from her 6 inch dob. Prior to this she was using a 2.5 inch Bushnell refractor (department store scope) that had made her so frustrated she dumped it in her room and resorted to just laying outside using her naked eye to look at the sky. After seeing the moon through a friends 8 inch I knew a "project" was born.

The moon taken on 24 Oct '04 with a Kodak 5 mega pixel digital camera, no mount, with our just finished 6 inch dob and a Siebert Optics 35mm super wide angle eyepiece. No image layering, just light and contrast adjustment. With the 150mm primary mirror, this eyepiece provides magnification of 34.3X

The moon taken on 24 Oct '04 with a Kodak 5 mega pixel digital camera, no mount, with our just finished 6 inch dob and a Siebert Optics 10mm eyepiece. No image layering, just light and contrast adjustment. With the 150mm primary mirror, this eyepiece provides magnification of 120x