While the majority of us are not astronauts, there is a tool that can be used in your home to make you feel like you’re just a little bit closer to the stars – the telescope.

Five years ago, a group of UK researchers from the University of Sheffield, including physicist Mark Wrigley , were inspired by NASA’s Juno spacecraft to create their own DIY telescope, the PiKon , using 3D printing and a Raspberry Pi.

Now, a pair of Polish scientists have followed in their footsteps with their own parametric, open source, DIY telescope with 3D printed parts. Aleksy Chwedczuk and Jakub Bochiński wanted to help popularize astronomy by making their own semi-professional, yet affordable, telescope model for at-home use, for which people can then download the files and create on their own. Chwedczuk and Bochiński call their creation the Telescope Prime , and created the […]

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