Amateur Telescope Making

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Al's Custom Telescope Accessories - Oak tripod, tripod accessories, leg kits, feedback, and links.

Amateur Telescope Makers (ATM) Archives - To disseminate knowledge, experiences, ideas, and resources.

The Amateur Telescope Makers Email List - FAQ, managing a subscription, and archives.

An Amateur Telescope Maker's Projects - Articles on various telescope designs.

Astral Weeks - Construction of reflector, refractor, and mini solar cam with images, and astro images.

Astro Designs - Accessory designs and information to enhance the use of Meade LX200s, Dobsonian reflectors, and other telescopes plus star charts for computerized telescopes.

Astronomy and Telescope Making - List of projects, mirror testing, do it yourself projects, CCD imaging and techniques, and Messier observations.

ATM - Amateur Telescope Making - Information on telescope building, equatorial platform, scotch mount, and binocular mount, and information how to let a Dobsonian telescope move smoothly.

ATM Letters - Electronic based Journal with current issue, past issues, and archives.

The ATM Site - Repository for resources and techniques by chronological, keyword, or author.

The ATM's Workshop - Areas covered include optics, woodworking, metalworking, electronics, programming, and telescope equipment, and tips and techniques.

Bill's 14.5 Inch Telescope Making Project - Description, photographs, rebuilding of telescope, making simple lens for reflector, and links.

Computer Operated Telescopes - Features plans and designs for stepper or servo motor layouts as well as features, free software, how-to information, and links.

The Construction - Littlebear Observatory - Information and photos on the construction of the observatory.

Dan Bakken and Hercules - World's largest portable amateur telescope, 41.2" Newtonian reflector with pictures of the telescope and during construction.

Dave's ATM Page - Information to add altitude-azimuth controller and unipolar stepper motor controller to a telescope, and directions with drawings and images of individual parts for a ten inch scope.

100% Do It Yourself - Equatorial table, hydraulic focusing system, stepper motor electronic controls, hydraulic drive, advice to build a telescope, and beginners corner.

Donkey's and Fat Boy's Telescope Page - Materials, decisions, rough and fine grinding, and polishing to make a 8" mirror.

Foucault Tester - Building a tester with a unique return mechanism, simplistic in design and very practical, enables the user to obtain highly accurate results.

Got Grit? - Telescope mirror making supplies and tutorials.

How Products Are Made: Telescope - Background, raw materials, and the manufacturing process with references.

I and My Telescope - Amateur telescope making, mirror grinding.

Jim Richberg's Mostly Astronomy Web Site - Projects, solar observing, collimation tools, observing tips, gallery, and links.

Making and Motorizing of Telescope - Construction of small newtonian and Mel Bartels system for computer control.

Meade 826 Reflector Telescope - Details the restoration of the equipment from the late 1970's.

Mike Lindner's Telescope Making - Links to completed telescopes and free mirror testing software.

Mike's Telescope Workshop - Photos and descriptions of binocular stand, several telescopes, solar camera, and links for parts.

Mirror Making and Other Activities by Laurie Hall - Mirror making, the equipment and testing equipment.

The Octagonal Observatory - Documents design and building of an observatory for NexStar11 GPS telescope with images.

A Photovisual Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope - Information acquired during design and construction of a 7.5" aperture F8.

Poor Meadow Dyke Observatory - Construction details with images of Dobsonian, GEM reflector, portable Dobsonian, 20" goto scope, dome, and 20" goto Dobsonian.

Scope Making - Plans and instructions for building a Dobsonian, refractor, wooden tripod, eyepieces and other accessories.

Shane LaPierre's ATM Pages - 20" Dobsonian, 8" versatile newt, cookbook 245 CCD, equipment, images, logs, and links.

Stellafane ATM Pages - Simple and proven techniques that most appropriate for the beginner and the novice mirror and telescope makers.

Telescope Making 1997 - 2000 - Personal log of making a 10 inch Newtonian telescope and mirror, including pictures.

Weird Telescopes - Features several unique solutions for telescope issues with images.