![]() ![]() 'I had my doubts it would work, especially with no plans being drawn up, but I have to admit, it's working.' I come out and help him and hold something once in a while, but this has been all Mike,' Dodds said. He found that in order to make the mirror focus the image, the eyepiece would have to be a whopping 427 inches away, hence a structure more than 35 feet tall.ĭodds also provided Clements with some space to build the telescope on his 5 acres of land in Herriman that he's dubbed Astronomy Acres. ![]() His longtime friend Steve Dodds, who owns Nova Optical, helped him test the focal distance of the mirror. ![]() In fact, he never actually drew up plans for his monstrous telescope - he just adapted the design from smaller telescopes in his mind. It's hard to imagine him alone in truck for 8 to 9 hours a day, six days a week, driving 2,000 miles for Central Refrigerated Service, Inc., with no one to share his thoughts.īut, he says the silence gives him time to dream up the design for telescopes. According to plan: While the primary mirror is 70 inches, the black metal structure itself stands about 35 feet tall, supporting a secondary mirror that is 29 inches, which makes it one of the biggest telescopes created by an amateur astronomer ![]()
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