Amateur Telescope Making Amateur Astronomy

Amateur Telescope Making Amateur Astronomy

This category lists sites specifically for amateur telescope making (ATM) as well as any of the parts or accessories belonging to a telescope.

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Making and Motorizing of Telescope - Construction of small newtonian and Mel Bartels system for computer control.
Amateur Telescope Makers (ATM) Archives - To disseminate knowledge, experiences, ideas, and resources.
Astral Weeks - Construction of reflector, refractor, and mini solar cam with images, and astro images.
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.
Shane LaPierre's ATM Pages - 20" Dobsonian, 8" versatile newt, cookbook 245 CCD, equipment, images, logs, and links.
Mike Lindner's Telescope Making - Links to completed telescopes and free mirror testing software.
A Photovisual Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope - Information acquired during design and construction of a 7.5" aperture F8.
Meade 826 Reflector Telescope - Details the restoration of the equipment from the late 1970's.
Dan Bakken and Hercules - World's largest portable amateur telescope, 41.2" Newtonian reflector with pictures of the telescope and during construction.
Bill's 14.5 Inch Telescope Making Project - Description, photographs, rebuilding of telescope, making simple lens for reflector, and links.
How Products Are Made: Telescope - Background, raw materials, and the manufacturing process with references.
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.
Got Grit? - Telescope mirror making supplies and tutorials.
The Octagonal Observatory - Documents design and building of an observatory for NexStar11 GPS telescope with images.
The ATM's Workshop - Areas covered include optics, woodworking, metalworking, electronics, programming, and telescope equipment, and tips and techniques.
Foucault Tester - Building a tester with a unique return mechanism, simplistic in design and very practical, enables the user to obtain highly accurate results.
ATM Letters - Electronic based Journal with current issue, past issues, and archives.
Scope Making - Plans and instructions for building a Dobsonian, refractor, wooden tripod, eyepieces and other accessories.
The ATM Site - Repository for resources and techniques by chronological, keyword, or author.
The Construction - Littlebear Observatory - Information and photos on the construction of the observatory.
The Amateur Telescope Makers Email List - FAQ, managing a subscription, and archives.
Mike's Telescope Workshop - Photos and descriptions of binocular stand, several telescopes, solar camera, and links for parts.
Astronomy and Telescope Making - List of projects, mirror testing, do it yourself projects, CCD imaging and techniques, and Messier observations.
I and My Telescope - Amateur telescope making, mirror grinding.
Mirror Making and Other Activities by Laurie Hall - Mirror making, the equipment and testing equipment.
Poor Meadow Dyke Observatory - Construction details with images of Dobsonian, GEM reflector, portable Dobsonian, 20" goto scope, dome, and 20" goto Dobsonian.
100% Do It Yourself - Equatorial table, hydraulic focusing system, stepper motor electronic controls, hydraulic drive, advice to build a telescope, and beginners corner.
Weird Telescopes - Features several unique solutions for telescope issues with images.
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.
Computer Operated Telescopes - Features plans and designs for stepper or servo motor layouts as well as features, free software, how-to information, and links.
An Amateur Telescope Maker's Projects - Articles on various telescope designs.
San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers: Building Telescopes - Plans and how-to's for building a Dobsonian telescope, solar filter, and mirror-making techniques.
Al's Custom Telescope Accessories - Oak tripod, tripod accessories, leg kits, feedback, and links.

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