My first Magazine Sky & Telescope - 03.2019 | Page 71

nothing would fall out during transport. That’s right: Everything fi ts into the outer bucket! When it’s disassembled and stowed away, you can pick up the bucket by its handle and carry it like fi ve gallons of fun. Brent says the scope took him about a month to build: “An hour after work and a few hours on the weekend here and there.” How well does it work? “Surpris- ingly, not too bad. Although it works as a larger-footprint tabletop scope, I actually enjoyed taking the OTA by -XVW D IHZ RI WKH EUDQGV ZH FDUU\