Curiosity
DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope
Details
- External ID
- 47295279
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Curiosity
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- March 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 81
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8856088560885609
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
A DIY Newtonian reflector telescope with dobsonian mount. A fun to do hobby project taking us closer to the moon and beyond. A lot of plans ahead on how to make it much better and portable but this was the first time me and my friend implemented or rather built a telescope.Have a look at what all we have captured.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- diy newtonian reflector telescope kit
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a physical DIY optical telescope project involving physical mirror fabrication, optical alignment, and mechanical Dobson mounts.
What it would actually take: Requires optical engineering, mechanical design, precision physical fabrication (cutting, grinding/polishing glass optics, aluminization), and carpentry or 3D manufacturing to build a rigid Dobsonian mount and optical tube assembly.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Commercial hobby scopes ($100-200 range), Printables telescope designs (Wallace, Gromit, travel truss dobs), Traditional wooden telescope builds
Concerns raised: Cheaper commercial scopes are shoddy quality, Portability/weight makes solo setup difficult, Assembly complexity and time investment, Website/project documentation currently unavailable
Feature requests: Improved portability with better bag straps and carrying system, Reduce assembly complexity (currently requires more than two hands), Add solar filters for sun observation, Guidance on selecting appropriate 3D printers for telescope projects
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Attention rank: #5 of 24 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 118 days after the earliest competitor.
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