I've been helping to teach telescope making at the Chabot Telescope Maker's Workshop for the past nine years. In that time, I've often thought that it would be good to have a comprehensive set of notes that details most of the practical details that someone needs to know to build a telescope.
www.telescopemaking.org/ www.telescopemaking.org/
A WWW Resource for Amateur Telescope Making ... Amateur Telescope Making Resources Below! ... The ATM Page is intended as a resource for both beginning and advanced Amateur Telescope Making. ATMs are at once, optical engineers, machinists, woodworkers, electrical engineers, programmers, gamers, stay at home moms,
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Amateur telescope making - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The field of amateur telescope making is considered an offshoot of the amateur astronomy community. Amateur telescope makers (sometimes called ATMs), as their name implies, are not paid professional...
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telescope making, mirror grinding, homemade tripod, eyepieces, astronomy ... Amateur telescope making ... Telescope Making; Web Ring...
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How do I build a telescope at home? Use these step-by-step instructions. ... In its essence, a telescope is an instrument that makes a far away object look closer.
www.howstuffworks.com/question568.htm
Unobstructed reflecting telescopes are my passion. Here are photos of amateur scopes along with descriptions of the various types. ... A big West Virginia welcome to my weird telescope page. Achieving the very best views of the night sky is what this site is about. Showcased here are a variety of solutions by individuals...
bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/homepage/alumni/dstevick/weird.htm
This is how to make a simple telescope using two lenses and a cardboard tube ... Using your felt tip pen colour the end of the tube with the shorter focal length lens so you know which way round you telescope is.
www.lightwave.soton.ac.uk/experiments/telescope/telesco... www.lightwave.soton.ac.uk/experiments/telescope/telescope.html
A NASA scientist has a practical idea for building a telescope on the moon. Rather than flying one there, use the lunar soil to make one on site. ... "We believe we have found a way to turn moon dust into a telescope," said Peter Chen, with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Catholic University...
dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/09/lunar-telescope.html dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/09/lunar-telescope.html
From the above picture, you can see that an image, HI, will be viewed upright, making the Galilean telescope useful for terrestrial purposes as well as astronomical. Keplerian telescopes, in contrast, invert the image.
galileo.rice.edu/lib/student_work/astronomy96/mtelescop... galileo.rice.edu/lib/student_work/astronomy96/mtelescope.html
ULTRA-SIMPLE TELESCOPE ... A telescope with a tube is nice, but it's more complicated than necessary. A telescope with adjustable focus is useful, but it's hard to build. A project that's too complex and difficult will drive people away, when the goal is to tempt them into building it.
amasci.com/amateur/teles.html