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Bookmark or Share- ATM: Building a Hardwood Coopered Dob - Amateur Telescope Making (ATM ...Fibercasting is a smelly, messy and imperfect method for making a lightweight tube. A faster and equally lightweight method for making a tube involves coopering from thin strips. Pictures for this method are shown below. If you have a table saw, I recommend coopering as a good alternative for making lightweight telescope tubes.
- ATM, Optics and DIY Forum - Cloudy NightsATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) and any do it yourself related activities. Ask questions, discuss and post pictures of telescope related projects, optics, telescopes, observing chairs, etc.
- Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) - Cloudy NightsBuilding an open-tubed 12.5 F/12.5 Classical Cassegrain By Michael E. Lockwood Figure 1: Telescope, equatorial platform, and support platform, waiting for darkness in the fields of Illinois. Introduction Ive enjoyed watching th...
- Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) - Articles - Cloudy NightsMel Bartels is a well known amateur telescope maker who, for nearly a decade, has provided a DOS based computer control program and electronics plans/boards for self build drive systems. He also has a commercial program that controls servo motors, but this is article is refers only to the free stepper version – which is in no way inferior.
- A Look at the Future of Amateur Telescope Makers - ArticlesA Look at the Future of Amateur Telescope Makers . By Zane Landers . Telescope making in particular is one of the facets of amateur astronomy that for so long has begun to drastically shrink in size and to perhaps seem due to disappear entirely. After all, with the availability of the omnipresent Chinese-made telescopes that have all but cornered today’s market, there’s little economic ...
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