Make your own Telescope Dew Shield.

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Crazy cheap and easy to make. A fraction of the weight also. Check out my DIY dew shield if you are thinking about making one for your telescope.

[@jorbin7417]

Going to try this out with some old EVA foam

[@oz6123]

Went to Decathlon and bought a black $8 yoga mat that is also 6.5mm thick. Sewed a few velcro bits and got myself a 10" light shield.

[@StargazerMan]

Awesome!

[@StargazerMan]

I've had someone point me to sheets of flooring called Proplex that is potentially lighter, folds flat and stick on Velcro is suitable for. Must try this next!

[@stargazer2042]

I thought of open cell foam, but I'm guessing stick on velcro won't stick.

[@StargazerMan]

@@stargazer2042 It may do, I'm going only by my experience from using stick-on Velcro. I think a good polyurethane glue might work.

[@ilciauscolodicanguro2756]

What about staplers instead? 🙂

[@StargazerMan]

Hi! So do you mean that you can staple the ends together (as opposed to glue/sew?) Good idea! (I thought so too) but, they rip out too easily.

[@cattaraugustonawanda4426]

Great idea and I plan to make a dew shield for my Dobsonians (yes you heard that right😂) to exclude extraneous light pollution. Maybe attach the dew heater under the dew shield to prevent insulating the dew shield from the scope.

[@StargazerMan]

Are your Dobs solid tubes? Is the plan to put the light shield on the opposite side of the OTA from the eyepiece?

[@justincace5517]

@@StargazerMan Sorry to hijack: I am building a custom 207mm / 750mm Newtonian. I really liked the video and got what I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to produce this and others. I have an additional question based on this comment. When I finish my scope, it will be 32" (about 800mm) tall. This makes it an F/3.7. I want that light bucket for wide view sky objects. My thinking was that I would just add a tube that slides on dowels to add 10" (254mm) to reduce the FOV, and inturn raise the F/ratio for when I want to shoot planets. I would like your opinion on if this would work as I expect to raise the F/ratio of the scope. My goal is to raise the F/ by a few maybe a 6 or 7 so that the planets are not blindingly bright. Thanks!

[@tomwall8403]

This is now on my list of Summer projects. Question: I want to mount my ETX on rings. Are those rings on your ETX125 made by you?

[@StargazerMan]

Hi Tom. I bought the ring mounting system for the ETX125 from ScopeStuff. www.scopestuff.com/ss_stms.htm

[@jdabull83]

when this kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYHZnpanjqica6M flashed by the screen, I thought it was the sun with a face on it

[@StargazerMan]

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[@stargazer2042]

Sewing sounds better than my ideas

[@StargazerMan]

☺️ I never thought sewing would be needed for astronomy.