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Amateur Telescope Making
How can we understand the universe if we don't look at it? Resources here are for individuals interested in making their own telescopes.
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Jan van Gastel's astronomy page
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One of the most rewarding aspects of astronomy is ATM: Amateur Telescope Making. Most self-built telescopes are Newtonian telescopes on a Dobsonian mount. My first self-built telescope, a 12 inch f/6 Dobsonian is pictured here. For transport purposes, I rebuilt it into a truss telescope. I also built a 20 incher. A picture of both telescopes in Jou-sous-Monjou, Southern France (summer 2004), is below.
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Mark's Notes for the Amateur Telescope Maker
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"Surely the making and putting into use of a powerful astronomical telescope goes far toward properly orienting one's self in the great scheme of things." -- Russell Porter
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The ATM Site
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This site is a repository for information for and by ATMs (Amateur Telescope Makers). Over the years, web sites come and web sites go. Often, the owners move on and scrap their old web pages. When that happens, information is lost to the ATM community. To help prevent that from happening, this site was born from a discussion on the ATM list. Sam Michael of id Communications graciously donated this web server and hosts it for free. Several others have donated their time and effort to maintain the site's contents.
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