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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.
 
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Discussion of two types of beginner telescopes, the reflector and the refractor.
 
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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 ...
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 

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