Our Telescope is Going to ROCK!!

We spent a few hours today assembling the rocker box for our telescope.

The Tube box sits in two 60 degree V cuts on top of the rocker box.  This will allow us to move the scope from 0 to 90 degrees. 

    

The plans we are using call for us to cut two 4" circles out of plywood.  I attempted this with a jigsaw and was very unsuccessful. It was more cloud shape than circle. I decided to stray from the plans and use 4" PVC flanges in place of the plywood. 

Next we are going to build the base. This should not take very long as it is just two pieces and 4 feet.