How Telescopes Work
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| Dave Stevick's Weird Telescopes Page Features several unique solutions for telescope issues with images. | |
| Telescopes Advice on buying a telescope, beginner's advice, eyepieces, and care and setupof telescope and accessories. | |
| Litebox Telescopes Designs and manufactures portable Dobsonian telescope frames in the 12.5 to 18inch aperture range. | |
| Tectron Telescopes Offers collimation tools including basic sight tubes, Chesire eyepieces andautocollimators. | |
| Guide to Telescopes for the Beginner Offers advice for selecting and buying first telescope. | |
| Solar Telescopes Resources from Astroweb. | |
| Dobsonian Telescope Plans Materials, tool, and sources list, overview drawings, tube, making spider, andeyepiece tube preparations, and mirror cell and mount construction. | |
| Galileo Telescopes Binoculars Galileo's Place is the home of Galileo telescopes, binoculars, and accessoriesfor telescopes and binoculars. | |
| 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. | |
| South Africa Online - Travel, Accommodation, Car Rental, Forex ... Includes currency rates, weather forecast, humour, surveys and site listings. | |
| Telescopes Binoculars Accessories Microscopes & Microscope Parts Offers telescope & binoculars accessories, microscopes, microscope parts, astronomysoftware and more. Telescope, binoculars and microscope accessories and ... | |
| Galactic Core Gazette -- Astronomy Humor Newspaper-style lampoon of astronomy and pseudo-science topics. | |
| Astronomy for the Absolute Beginner Introduction of astronomy, telescopes, accessories, and other resources. | |
| Telescope making 1997 - 2000 Personal log of making a 10 inch Newtonian telescope and mirror, including pictures. | |
| The Astronomical Society of Harrisburg Classes, events, public speaking and observing, information, gallery, star partyinformation, resources, and forum. | |
| Science For People! Essays, reviews, and other opinion pieces presenting scientific and science policytopics without the jargon. | |
| ATS Techniques and Tips An article entitled: A Professional Method for Cleaning Optics by Robert Ariail. | |
| Favorite Astronomy Links Links to news, what's up, research, institutions, observatories, history ofastronomy, and astronomy as a hobby, by Prof. JS Tenn, Sonoma State University. | |
| Manual lenses with EOS cameras How to use manual lenses (Spotmatic M42, Leica R, and Nikon) and telescopes withCanon EOS autofocus cameras. | |
| Galileo Biography, with links to related internet sites. | |
| Jerry and Wanda's ASTRONOMY Page includes astronomical image galleries, equipment information, and resources. | |
| BBC - History - Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) Detailed biography includes a look at Newton's early years and his developinginterest in science. | |
| Apogee Inc. Illinois retailer of telescopes, binoculars and accessories by Celestron, Kendrick,Lomo, and Meade. Also sells optical lenses, motors, fans and gears. | |
| Meade Telescopes Accessories for Meade ETX Telescope & Meade 497 ... Alignment accessories and flexible dew shields for Meade ETX series telescopesand the Meade 497 Autostar. | |
| 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. | |
| The Sky Plus - Baltimore based Celestron and Meade Telescopes and ... Telescopes, binoculars, microscopes, and accessories. Dealer for Celestron,Telrad, Thousand Oaks Optical, Dob-Driver, Software Bisque, SBIG, and Jim Kendrick ... | |
| Kay Optical - Binoculars - Telescopes - Microscopes - Night Vision ... Terrestrial and astronomical telescopes, binoculars, microscopes, night visionequipment and other optical instruments, plus an equipment repair service. | |
| Digiscoping Basic tips and links for photographing birds using a digital camera attached toa spotting scope. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| UK Web Directory and Webzine - Easytorecall UK Web Directory Web directory and search engine reviews and rates all sites listed. | |
| Tenagra Observatories Operations, commercial time, facilities and equipment information, sites,discoveries, articles, and links. | |
| The Paper Project - History of the Microscope Definitions and types of microscopes, along with connections to telescopes and lenses. | |
| Skyscript: The Life and Work of Galileo by Deborah Houlding A detailed account of Galileo's early influences and summary of important eventsin his efforts to prove heliocentricity. | |
| United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre The ATC, based at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, aims to be the UK's NationalCentre for the design and production of state of the art astronomical ... | |
| 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. | |
| Creativity Workshop, creative writing, art, memoir, storytelling ... The site explores creative process, stimulating new ideas, getting over writers'block, gaining creative courage. For people of all backgrounds, writers, ... | |
| How Things Work - How Things Work Home Page Ask about almost anything related to the physical world, and check the well-organizedarchives for answers to previous interesting questions. | |
| Rome Observatory - Campo Imperatore astronomical site - CINEOS Project A search and follow-up program of Near-Earth Objects, carried out at the CampoImperatore station of the Rome Observatory near the summit of the Gran Sasso ... | |
| Mount Wilson Virtual Observatory Image galleries including a panorama, picture of the day archive, guest archive,and facility archive. | |
| Main Hubble Page Overview, operations, technology, servicing missions, project, news, and image gallery. | |