If you fancy 3D printing and building your very own
telescope you may be interested in a new project created by Mika Yeap which
combines 3D printed parts, a telescope tube and the Raspberry Pi mini PC. The
PiKon is a ‘astro-cam’ telescope powered by a small Raspberry Pi mini PC
capable of monitoring and capturing the night sky. Pictures are taken through
the command line, so it’s most convenient to choose to boot to the command line
rather than the GUI Explains Yeap.
The Pi design replaces the conventional eye-piece of
a Newtonian reflecting telescope with a Raspberry Pi camera (lens removed). The
telescope mirror is then used to focus an image on the Raspberry Pi camera
sensor providing users with a field of view of about 1/4 degree.
If you’re interested in building your very own 3D
printed Raspberry Pi telescope jump over to the official PiKon Telescope
project page created by “Markwrig” a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and
Royal Astronomical Society 3D printing enthusiast.
