I'll start off with sorry for this being my second post, I just discovered this section.
I'm 22 y/o and been really into lasers on the internet for 8-10 years or so but never got around to getting myself any for some reason.
I'm really into science/physics, my #1 life passion is astronomy (imaging, not so much visual). Lucky lasers tie into it quite well, from using one to point out a planet all the way up to the 20+ watt sodium lasers used for active optics on the big boy telescopes. Electronics is my pastime, I'm not the best at designing anything past relatively basic circuits but I really enjoy fixing stuff I break and modifying the ones I dont.
Just got into using forums in the last few months. Not sure if this one suffers from it, but the astronomy ones are full of opinions and therefore bickering which sorta drives me nuts and that's what has kept me away from them until recently.
No specific reason I like lasers, so "because science" will be my answer.
I would really like to start collecting as many wavelengths as my wallet allows, as many of you do. I am more interested in having super stable lasers than high power ones, but everyone has to have at least one outlier to their collection right? My goal right now (other than building some basic RGBV pointers) is to build a "white" laser, then later on get a 589nm so I can toss it on my telescope for some fun pictures when I'm out at a dark sky site. And way down the line I would love setting up an argon laser but that's a bit passed my budget right now and I am not currently worthy of one.
So to finish it off here is my scope with a red 5mw on it photoshopped to be 589nm after some fog rolled in.
Happy lazing! Or as we say it on the astro forums, clear skies!
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I'm 22 y/o and been really into lasers on the internet for 8-10 years or so but never got around to getting myself any for some reason.
I'm really into science/physics, my #1 life passion is astronomy (imaging, not so much visual). Lucky lasers tie into it quite well, from using one to point out a planet all the way up to the 20+ watt sodium lasers used for active optics on the big boy telescopes. Electronics is my pastime, I'm not the best at designing anything past relatively basic circuits but I really enjoy fixing stuff I break and modifying the ones I dont.
Just got into using forums in the last few months. Not sure if this one suffers from it, but the astronomy ones are full of opinions and therefore bickering which sorta drives me nuts and that's what has kept me away from them until recently.
No specific reason I like lasers, so "because science" will be my answer.
I would really like to start collecting as many wavelengths as my wallet allows, as many of you do. I am more interested in having super stable lasers than high power ones, but everyone has to have at least one outlier to their collection right? My goal right now (other than building some basic RGBV pointers) is to build a "white" laser, then later on get a 589nm so I can toss it on my telescope for some fun pictures when I'm out at a dark sky site. And way down the line I would love setting up an argon laser but that's a bit passed my budget right now and I am not currently worthy of one.
So to finish it off here is my scope with a red 5mw on it photoshopped to be 589nm after some fog rolled in.
Happy lazing! Or as we say it on the astro forums, clear skies!
View attachment activeoptics.jpg
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