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Amateur Teleascope Making has a thriving on-line community. There are lots of opinions out there, which can make it difficult to decide whom to trust for advice. We have found the links below to have been rather useful.

Websites: Telescopes & related topics

Link Comment

http://www.efn.org/~mbartels/ 

Mel Bartels' Home Page. The grand-daddy of ATM sites.

Doc G's Info Site. 

Practical advice on various topics, including fiddling with various Meade LX200 products and accessories, astro-imaging, and so on.

http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/java/about.html

http://www.geocities.com/ivankrat/java/jodas.html

 

JODAS - Java Optical Design & Analysis Software. You can run the core via a Java-enabled web browser or download the entire package to run offline. 1, 2 & 3-mirror systems are supported, as are some catadioptric systems. A tutorial is included.

http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/cot/cot.html

Computer Operated Telescopes

http://www.atmpage.com/

The ATM Page – a WWW resource for Amateur Telescope Making

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/%7Elewis/plop/

Automated Mirror Cell Optimization

http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/tele/tele.htm

How to Build a Telescope

http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/homepage/alumni/dstevick/weird.htm

Weird Telescopes

http://www.usno.navy.mil/8inchdob.html

Build an 8-inch Dobsonian Telescope

http://aberrator.astronomy.net/

Aberrator software

http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/tonkinsastro.htm

Stephen Tonkin's Astronomy Web Page

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/deimos/swpdr/va.html

Tracking Slit Position Angle at Nasmyth Foci

http://www.astunit.com/atm/projects/red-dot.htm

Red Dot Finder

http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.hanlon/contents.htm

Mike Hanlon’s ATM & Astronomy pages

http://www.geocities.com/ivankrat/modas.html

MODAS Optical Design Program - software overview

http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/sl/sl-atm.html

ATM - Amateur Telescope Making

http://www.iol.ie/~pkcurran/astro-09.htm

Sky Router telescope DIY

http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/sl/

Steve Lee's Pages of Astronomy, Telescopes and CCDs

http://members.aol.com/sfsidewalk/cdobplans.htm

How to Build a Dobsonian Telescope

http://hometown.aol.com/sfsidewalk/sunscope.htm

Dobsonian Sun Scope

http://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/tie/dobson/index.html

PLANS FOR BUILDING A SIDEWALK TELESCOPE

http://www.brid-rd.freeserve.co.uk/recreation/Astronomy/

Scope_Building/

Astronomy / Scope_Building

http://home.earthlink.net/~flyj/designns5.html

NEWTONIAN TELESCOPE DESIGN PLANNER (Nestscape version)

http://www.northern-stars.com/catadioptric_telescopes.htm

Catadioptric Telescopes

http://hometown.aol.com/sfsidewalk/sunscope.htm

Dobsonian Sun Scope

http://www.finderscope.com/equipment/making.html

Equipment: Amateur Telescope Making

http://www.finderscope.com/equipment/dobsonian.html

Equipment: Reflectors

http://www.finderscope.com/equipment/refractor.html

Equipment: Refractors

http://members.aol.com/sfsidewalk/cdobplans.htm

How to Build a Dobsonian Telescope

http://www.jenoptik-camera.com/english

JENOPTIK Camera Europe Gmbh

http://www.northern-stars.com

Northern Stars Planetarium and Educational Services

http://www.northern-stars.com/off_site_links.htm#Telescope

Off Site Links

http://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/tie/dobson/index.html

PLANS FOR BUILDING A SIDEWALK TELESCOPE

http://www.northern-stars.com/reflecting_telescopes.htm

Reflecting Telescopes

http://www.northern-stars.com/refracting_telescopes.htm

Refracting Telescopes

http://www.northern-stars.com/tel_buying_hints.htm

Telescope Buying Hints

http://members.aol.com/atmlugt

The Newtonian Pages

 

 

 

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