Stillwater Stargazers members drew from the magazine article for inspiration in building their copyscopes. From Mild To Wild Fully functional copyscope by Ron Wagner Fully personalized copyscope by Ron Netzley Collecting the needed parts In general, the following parts will be needed to create your working telescope. The telescopes which will be created will perform as a wide field, low magnification instruments. Do not despair, the use of high power is seldom needed in astronomy. Tripod - A reasonable camera tripod.
Camcorder tripods are good, but are generally overkill.
Diagonal - Makes the scope far easier to use, but not absolutely needed. Miscellaneous plumbing, hardware, and wood pieces to fit lens and tripod selected. The objective lens Lenses for copyscopes can be difficult to acquire at times. Although everyone who wanted to build a copyscope in our club was able to find a lens, I have personally not seen any lenses recently. URL and addresses will be given later.