@jkanev@fediscience.org @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @W6KME@mastodon.radio @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I didn’t make it myself. I bought it from someone who was a woodworker who’d also gotten into amateur telescope making. No good photos of it though in the disassembled state, unfortunately. If there is a lot of light pollution, the larger mirror does help: it won’t fish really diffuse faint objects like galaxies out of the murk, but it does make it easier to see fainter stars and clusters of stars. Larger optics also translate into higher optical resolution, so you can see finer details in bright objects like the moon and planets.