A telescope became the test subject for my first real spray-painting experiment — part art project, part equipment mod, part “let’s hope I don’t ruin the optics.”
For this project, I used a Bresser 76/700 mm telescope similar to my first 3″ Newtonian — not the original one, but a spare-parts donor that was the perfect test subject for a night-sky spray-painting experiment. In this first part you see the deconstruction and first layers of spray paint: