How A Telescope Works
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| Computer Operated Telescopes Features plans and designs for stepper or servo motor layouts as well as features,free software, how-to information, and links. | |
| Telescopes Advice on buying a telescope, beginner's advice, eyepieces, and care and setupof telescope and accessories. | |
| Guide to Telescopes for the Beginner Offers advice for selecting and buying first telescope. | |
| 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. | |
| * Astro-Engineering * British manufacturer of a wide range of astronomical telescope accessories andastronomy related accessories including the GigaWedge and GigaPier for Meade 16" ... | |
| Vintage Telescopes from Japan Beautiful used telescopes acquired and for sale by John Niemi, Osaka, Japan. | |
| Astronomy for the Absolute Beginner Introduction of astronomy, telescopes, accessories, and other resources. | |
| 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. | |
| The history of the telescope and the binocular Collection of articles and images. | |
| Astronomy Today - Astronomy - Telescope Buyers' FAQ Guide for buying and using amateur telescopes, accessories, vendors, and variousresources. | |
| Astro Works Corporation Home Page Manufactures the Centurion 18 telescope system which features a focal ratio off/2.8. These instruments are designed for moderately wide field CCD imaging ... | |
| 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. | |
| Telescope Equipment and accessories, and observing through images and books. | |
| Galileo Biography, with links to related internet sites. | |
| BBC - History - Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) Detailed biography includes a look at Newton's early years and his developinginterest in science. | |
| Seti@home - search for extraterrestrial intelligence using a free ... An informative background piece explaining how the free Seti@home screensaver works. | |
| SETI Monitor - free SETI@home add-on A free program for Windows that monitors the activity of your SETI@home client.It shows the found signals and saves the results from processed work units. | |
| PHP SETI@home web monitor (phpsetimon). PHP script to monitor single or multiple setiathome programs running in yourworkstation or server, via the local web server. [Open Source, GPL] | |
| Torun Center for Astronomy The Department of Radio Astronomy TCfA Katedra Radioastronomii, informacje ogólne, pracownicy, badania naukowe, konferencje. | |
| Woden Optics Manufactures Newtonian optical systems, all types of Cassegrain optical systemsincluding an enhanced Ritchey Chretien optical system with integral field ... | |
| CNN - Shuttle mission aims to make history - July 7, 1999 [CNN] | |
| 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 ... | |
| Prairie Astronomy Club: OBSERVING THE SUN IN H-ALPHA Article on observing the chromosphere requiring a very narrow bandwidth filtercentered on the Hydrogen Alpha spectral line. | |
| Astrophotography For Amateurs An instructional guide for beginning astrophotographers by Olivier Thizy. | |
| Doc G's Info Site A venerable site filled with practical advice on film-based astrophotographyequipment and techniques. | |
| Engineering 100, Section 103, Group 3 This paper was assigned in our "Introduction to Engineering" class at the Universityof Michigan (Fall 99). The group has researched various systems for the ... | |
| Stargazing A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky. | |
| The Paper Project - History of the Microscope Definitions and types of microscopes, along with connections to telescopes and lenses. | |
| Isaac Newton A short biography. | |
| Cometman.com Home of The Arcturus Observatory Selected images and equipment details for the telescope, camera, and software. | |
| Principles of Astronomy, sample FIRST QUARTER Offers free lessons in astronomy. The course runs from Covers identification ofstars, constellations and planets, and physics. | |
| E-telescope The story of the Philadelphia Experiment keeps intriguing peoples minds for almosthalf a century from the first reports on this strange story. | |
| Dan Bakken & Hercules, a 41" Portable Telescope World's largest portable amateur telescope, 41.2" Newtonian reflector with picturesof the telescope and during construction. | |
| THE ORGONE ENERGY HYPOTHESES: A Skeptical Scrutiny of the Works ... Critiques Wilhelm Reich's 'orgone energy' hypotheses in detail. | |
| CNN - Astronauts set to install Hubble 'brain' - December 23, 1999 [CNN] | |
| ASP: Astronomical Pseudo-science: A Skeptic's Resource List A bibliography from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, for those who wantto examine with a skeptical eye some of the claims at the fringes of science ... | |
| Seeing Further, The Legacy of Robert Hooke Biography from the Griffith Observer June 1996. | |
| Herschel Club - Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel Short but informative biography by The Astronomical League. | |
| Roger Joseph Boscovich, SJ Illustrated profile of this 18th-century polymath. | |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Galileo Galilei Although in the popular mind Galileo is remembered chiefly as an astronomer, itwas not in this character that he made really substantial contributions to human ... | |
| Dr. DarkMatter Faculty member at the University of Oregon who engages mostly in observationalastronomy. Contains many pictures of astronomical phenomenon. | |