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Plans for Building a Dobsonian Telescope (Popularity:  )
http://members.aol.com/sfsidewalk/intro.htm
Materials, tool, and sources list, overview drawings, tube, making spider, and eyepiece tube preparations, and mirror cell and mount construction
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ATM - Amateur Telescope Making (Popularity: )
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jhm.vangastel/Astronomy/
Information on telescope building, equatorial platform, scotch mount, and binocular mount, and information how to let a Dobsonian telescope move smoothly.
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Weird Telescopes (Popularity: )
http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/homepage/alumni/dstevick/weird.htm
Features several unique solutions for telescope issues with images.
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Telescope Making Project (Popularity: )
http://sites.google.com/site/telescope1999/
Description, photographs, rebuilding of telescope, making simple lens for reflector, and links. How to build a large homemade telescope, including grinding and testing the telescope mirror. Lots of photos.
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Computer Operated Telescopes (Popularity: )
http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/cot/cot.html#CONTENTS
Features plans and designs for stepper or servo motor layouts as well as features, free software, how-to information, and links.
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Dan Bakken and Hercules (Popularity: )
http://www.runway.net/pilots/dan/welcome.html
World's largest portable amateur telescope, 41.2" Newtonian reflector with pictures of the telescope and during construction.
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Motorized 5" Telescope (Popularity: )
http://koti.phnet.fi/lottaki
Construction of small newtonian and Mel Bartels system for computer control.
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An Amateur Telescope Maker's Projects (Popularity: )
http://www.foothill.net/~sayre/
Articles on various telescope designs.
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ATM Optical Design and Analysis Software (Popularity: )
http://web.tiscali.it/ATMOS/
Freeware, Version 7.2, program for designing and analyzing telescope configurations.
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Mirror Making and Other Activities by Laurie Hall (Popularity: )
http://www.turbofast.com.au/astrotel/
Mirror making, the equipment and testing equipment.
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The ATM's Workshop (Popularity: )
http://www.atm-workshop.com/
Areas covered include optics, woodworking, metalworking, electronics, programming, and telescope equipment, and tips and techniques.
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Stellafane ATM Pages (Popularity: )
http://www.stellafane.com/atm/atm_main.htm
Simple and proven techniques that most appropriate for the beginner and the novice mirror and telescope makers.
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Ronchi for Windows (Popularity: )
http://members.aol.com/RonWin20/
Version 2.0 Windows 95/98/NT program that simulates the appearance of a mirror while undergoing the Ronchi Test.
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Astronomy and Telescope Making (Popularity: )
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.hanlon/
List of projects, mirror testing, do it yourself projects, ccd imaging and techniques, and Messier observation.
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Dave's ATM Page (Popularity: )
http://www.mindspring.com/~davebevel/
Information to add altitude-azimuth controller and unipolar stepper motor controller to a telescope, and directions with drawings and images of individual parts for a ten inch scope.
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The Construction - Littlebear Observatory (Popularity: )
http://www.littlebear-observatory.com/construction.htm
Information and photos on the construction of the observatory.
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Mike's Telescope Workshop (Popularity: )
http://www.mdpub.com/scopeworks/
Photos and descriptions of binocular stand, several telescopes, solar camera, and links for parts.
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Cell (Popularity: )
http://www.davidchandler.com/cell.htm
Public domain mirror cell design program for 9, 18, and 27 point flotation cells.
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Mona's Lab (Popularity: )
http://monaslab.com/
Amateur science and art.
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Donkey's and Fat Boy's Telescope Page (Popularity: )
http://home.iprimus.com.au/tonykwan/
Materials, decisions, rough and fine grinding, and polishing to make a 8" mirror.
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