OK, I'll bite.
On all but the last question - I'd have to say go and have a look here:
http://pw2.netcom.com/~ahighe/astroequ.html
On the last, I'm a fan of protostar - http://www.fpi-protostar.com/diagmnt.htm
There's a lot of decisions/tradeoffs to make when building a scope, it's great fun, you'll want to spend some time researching. Most of all, you want to write down some specific goals you have in order to make your decisions lead you to what you're after, e.g. it has to be cheap or light or fit in some specific car or all the above or....
Best of luck! Keep us posted.
On all but the last question - I'd have to say go and have a look here:
http://pw2.netcom.com/~ahighe/astroequ.html
On the last, I'm a fan of protostar - http://www.fpi-protostar.com/diagmnt.htm
There's a lot of decisions/tradeoffs to make when building a scope, it's great fun, you'll want to spend some time researching. Most of all, you want to write down some specific goals you have in order to make your decisions lead you to what you're after, e.g. it has to be cheap or light or fit in some specific car or all the above or....
Best of luck! Keep us posted.
