Telescope Making

Begining construction of an airline portable 15 inch string telescope.

What telescope owner can look at Mel Bartels' page on Computerizing a telescope without dreaming of doing the same with his own instrument? As I found myself returning to Mel's page time and again it became obvious that I would have to give it a try.

construction of a motorized fork mount motorized for a newton.

My site is devoted to telescope building with links to my mirror grinding machine, Astrophotography page and ATM projects

ATM projects undertaken on the cheap by an absolute beginner including an 8 inch Dob, one power finder, barndoor mount, quadrant, and sight tube.

Describes how to build an off-center solar filter for your telescope. The example was built for a 10" Dobsonian telescope. The website includes pictures and material source information and construction tips describing how to make a sturdy, durable solar filter for your telescope. It is ideal for observing sunspots and solar eclipses on a limited budget through your existing telescope s

Brayebrook Observatory, its history, telescopes and double star programme. Amateur astronomy, amateur telescope making, double stars, Dawes limit, the Lord nomogram, Newtonian reflectors, George Calver, German equatorials, astronomical observatories, bifilar micrometers, double image micrometers, Lyot micrometers, divided lens micrometers, Meca-Precis, Cooke Troughton && Simms, eyepieces, polar alignment. Astronomical articles and notes. Photographic articles. Sundri astronomial observations.

experience day after day (diary) of a telescope making, including mirror grinding, polishing and coating with chemical silvering and more :-))

Discussion and picture details of my home-built 8" Newtonian Telescope made from a 10" PVC pipe that incorporates a "DobDriver II" tracking System. Additionally, a hyperlink is available to my Online JavaScript "Newtonian Telescope Design Planner" for easy interactive planning of your own scope's construction parameters.

Describing various home-brew projects, like a RFT, a suitcase Dob, grinding mirrors, a foucault tester, stepper motor control and a CCD camera design. Furthermore, there are some articles which may be of interest.