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Quick n' Easy Litebox! By h0ughy
I needed to be able to provide flats for up to an 8" scope in the field, a lite box, would have to be light-weight and cut down stray light. I seem to have found an answer AND it runs off 12 volts.
I started with a thin sturdy box I scored from a mate that used to hold T- shirts. Using an a3 size thin light sheet that I bought a while back, some left over pluck foam, duct tape and drafting film that I managed to score from work (with computers and plotters this stuff is like gold - expensive and hard to find), and black foam core board. I used the cover off of the Celestron C8, to cut out the circle in the foam core board, (ok the cutting was more
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of a hack but I didn't have a sharp enough knife) then I cut out three sheets of drafting film and stuck them over the hole with duct 
tape. I then duct taped the pluck foam to one side and also taped the light sheet to the bottom of the box. Then I placed the foam core and hole over the top and taped it in. The pluck foam keeps it at an even height. Looked ready enough, so I turned it on and gave it a test shot with a canon ixus 80IS .