A team in Kolkata has built the city's largest handmade telescope, a 14.5-inch Dobsonian, showcasing both scientific ambition ...

but using a manual telescope can get to be a drag. A motorized mount with altitude and azimuth control is basic equipment for the serious observer, but adding a servo to control the focus of your ...

The Celestron StarSense Explorer 8" Dobsonian telescope is a large manual telescope of the sort that's usually out of reach of amateurs in terms of both cost and complexity. However, its use of ...

As the name suggests, this project is based around a Dobsonian-style telescope: Newtonian tube with simple altazimuth base. Aside from the mechanical construction, this system uses an ESP32 as its ...