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| Telescopes Advice on buying a telescope, beginner's advice, eyepieces, and care and setupof telescope and accessories. | |
| Stargazer Steve Telescopes Produces the Sgr-4, a 4-1/4" reflector on an altazimuth mount. Offers reflectortelescope kits and accessories. | |
| telescopes types refractors achromatic apochromatic reflectors Discussion of two types of beginner telescopes, the reflector and the refractor. | |
| Telescopes astronomy losmandy coronado pst mounts toucam philips ... Retailer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and other products for amateurastronomers. Based in Adelaide, Australia with worldwide sales. | |
| Taychert Telescopes Produces Dobsonian telescopes in a variety of sizes. The company's FarStartelescope claims to be the lightest weight 18" Dobsonian telescope available from any ... | |
| meridian telescopes, telescope distributer, wholesale telescopes ... A variety of products, components and accessories for the amateur telescope builder.Also offers plans for building a telescope. | |
| Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope A multi-element optical interferometer with baselines of up to 100 meters, designedto observe stars with angular resolution as high as one thousandth of one ... | |
| Dobsonian Telescope Plans Materials, tool, and sources list, overview drawings, tube, making spider, andeyepiece tube preparations, and mirror cell and mount construction. | |
| NexStar Resource Site - Celestron NexStar Telescopes Users guide, observer list, downloads, pc control, firmware, odds and ends,equipment reviews alignment guides, tracking test, and links. | |
| So You Wanna Buy a Telescope Discusses telescopes, types, buying, and accessories. | |
| Mike's Telescope Workshop Photos and descriptions of binocular stand, several telescopes, solar camera,and links for parts. | |
| The Prairie Astronomy Club: Telescope Buyer's Guide Finding a way through the maze of ads, catalogs, claims and counter claims aboutwhich is best or the least expensive. | |
| The Prairie Astronomy Club: Building the Club Telescope Article featuring information on building a truss-tube Dobsonian with pictures,description, and costs for Prairie Astronomy Club. | |
| Vintage Telescopes from Japan Beautiful used telescopes acquired and for sale by John Niemi, Osaka, Japan. | |
| Kennedy Space Center's Amateur Astronomers' Monthly star parties with maps, members personal home pages, astronomy andastrophysical links, and calendar of events. | |
| Astronomical Society of Rowan County Space news, astrophotography, light pollution, and printable maps. | |
| Choosing your Telescope's Magnification Selection depends on eyesight, telescope's aperture and optical design, atmosphericconditions, and type and size of the object being viewed. | |
| Thoughts on Building a Dobsonian Documents mechanical aspects of Dob building with images. | |
| FAQ about Collimating a Newtonian telescope Questions on how important the answers are to the performance of the instrument. | |
| The ATM's Workshop - Home Page Areas covered include optics, woodworking, metalworking, electronics, programming,and telescope equipment, and tips and techniques. | |
| Westchester Amateur Astronomers, Inc., New York News, events, bulletin board, images, and links. | |
| Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Newsletter, gallery, activities, books, tools, and links. | |
| Telescope making 1997 - 2000 Personal log of making a 10 inch Newtonian telescope and mirror, including pictures. | |
| Astronomy Today - Astronomy - Telescope Buyers' FAQ Guide for buying and using amateur telescopes, accessories, vendors, and variousresources. | |
| Bill's 14.5 inch Telescope Making Project Description, photographs, rebuilding of telescope, making simple lens for reflector,and links. | |
| Buying your first telescope in Australia Guide for beginners in choosing and buying a telescope and accessories, or binoculars. | |
| The Astronomical Society of Harrisburg Classes, events, public speaking and observing, information, gallery, star partyinformation, resources, and forum. | |
| Telescope Equipment and accessories, and observing through images and books. | |
| Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews Objective reviews for equipment and accessories submitted by astronomers, articles,classifieds, and forums. | |
| Draco Productions Affordable Astronomy for Students, Educators ... Economically priced beginner telescope kits which are suitable for children sixyears and older or as a family project. Accessories, eyepieces, Baader Solar ... | |
| Building an Inexpensive Galilean-Style Telescope Students at Rice University explain how they re-created the telescope that Galileoused to make the first ever magnified views of the stars and planets... and ... | |
| Collimation of Newtonian Telescope without Special Tools Intended to guide a inexperienced telescope user through a rough collimationprocess in which expensive additional tools are not required to obtain a workable ... | |
| Telescope Piers, Roll Off Roof Observatory Unique, adjustable height telescope piers that preserve polar alignment duringheight adjustment. Company also manufactures the Tele-Station roll-off roof ... | |
| My First Telescope - The Starting Point for Discovering the Stars Completely dedicated to the beginner with tips for selecting and buying a firsttelescope. | |
| SkyGear Telescopes - When Only The Best Will Do Travel Scope brand of medium sized Dobsonian telescopes with components CNCmachined from Baltic birch cabinetry. | |
| BBC News SCI/TECH | |
| Dobsonian Evolution Compact and ultra-light designs, tracking solutions, and other resources. | |
| Sky Valley Scopes, Custom Built Telescopes Tubes Offers very strong telescope tubes which feature a unique honeycomb construction.Site features basic plans and ideas for the home telescope builder. | |
| Sidewalk Astronomers Dobsonian telescope plans and beginners handbook. | |
| Donkey's & Fat boy's Telescope Page Materials, decisions, rough and fine grinding, and polishing to make a 8" mirror. | |
| NASA Radio JOVE Project Home Page An educational project to involve secondary school students in collecting andanalyzing observations of the natural radio emissions of Jupiter and Sun. | |
| Dark Matter Telescope (DMT) [ground] is a proposed 8.4 meter, 3-degree-field, synoptic survey telescope.The product of collecting area and field of view will be 20 times more powerful ... | |
| Cloudy Nights How-To Page Contains practicals, mounts, eyepiece cases, dew shields, ATM's, star charts,and mini's. | |
| VISTA -- the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy [ground] a 4-m Wide Field Survey telescope for the Southern Hemisphere. It willbe sited on Cerro Paranal, Chile. | |
| 100% Do It Yourself Equatorial table, hydraulic focusing system, stepper motor electronic controls,hydraulic drive, advice to build a telescope, and beginners corner. | |
| Astrophotography For Amateurs An instructional guide for beginning astrophotographers by Olivier Thizy. | |
| Polar Align Your Telescope, Here's How. - an Astronomy Net Article Balancing the declination axis and the right ascension axis, aligning to northstar, and using mount to locate objects. | |