{"id":175,"date":"2018-06-29T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/two-videos-from-other-kinds-of-workshops-dobson-makes-a-telescope-peter-builds-an-airplane\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:39:00","slug":"two-videos-from-other-kinds-of-workshops-dobson-makes-a-telescope-peter-builds-an-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/two-videos-from-other-kinds-of-workshops-dobson-makes-a-telescope-peter-builds-an-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Videos from Other Kinds of Workshops &#8212; Dobson Makes a Telescope, Peter Builds an Airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snz7JJlSZvw?rel=0\" width=\"440\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer)<\/iframe> <br \/> <b>Above you can watch a video showing the legendary John Dobson making a big telescope. Born in Beijing, Dobson is the former Hindu monk who left the monastery to show people how to make big telescopes out of shipping tubes and port-hole glass. Think of it as the BITX of amateur astronomy. Dobson is the founder of the &#8220;sidewalk astronomy&#8221; movement &#8212; that&#8217;s when you set up your &#8216;scope on an urban sidewalk and show the wonders of the universe (or at least the solar system) to passers-by. We did this in London with Saturn. (Some of the cynical Londoners couldn&#8217;t believe it was real &#8212; they thought I had a transparency in the scope tube.) Dobson developed a very simple and popular method of mounting telescope tubes &#8212; the &#8220;Dobsonian&#8221; method. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>More on Dobson here:<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer)\"> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>Below you can see a short update on Peter&#8217;s homebrew airplane. <\/b><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer)\"><br \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer)\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmLrVryvPEo?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer) Above you can watch a video showing the legendary John Dobson making a big telescope. Born in Beijing, Dobson is the former Hindu monk who left the monastery to show people how to make big telescopes out of shipping tubes and port-hole glass. Think of it as the BITX of amateur astronomy. Dobson is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/two-videos-from-other-kinds-of-workshops-dobson-makes-a-telescope-peter-builds-an-airplane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Videos from Other Kinds of Workshops &#8212; Dobson Makes a Telescope, Peter Builds an Airplane&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,13,88,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-astronomy","category-telescopes","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}