I use 3D printing all the time to solve the simplest of problems. This time around it was getting my telescope into a position that’s easy to work on, looks decent, and takes up as little table space as possible. Before this, I was clumping a bunch of towels under it to keep it steady — which worked, but it spread across half my workbench. This is a cleaner solution.

Feel free to download and print these out yourself if you’ve got a 6-inch Newtonian. I lined the cradle with that black tool-drawer padding – cut it to fit and glued it down on top of the plastic so it sits between the telescope and the stand. This helps keep the tube from sliding around.

Thingiverse: 6″ Newtonian Tabletop Stand / Cradle (GSO 750) by dbeach9990 – Thingiverse