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Amateur Telescope Making

• Bob May's ATM Pages (1,308)
  Bob May is one of the leading ATMers around. His pages have lots of great ATM info, articles and links.
• David Gault's Astronomy Page (1,205)
  David's pages cover his efforts in amateur telescope making and Observational Astronomy. His pages have good info on building both a 10" scope and a very nice homemade German Equatorial Mount.
• Jan van Gastel's Astonomy Page (1,273)
  Jan van Gastel is another long-time ATMer from the Netherlands who has accumulated quite a bit iof valuable knowledge. He now shares it with us in English via these web pages.
• Little Dipper Telescope (1,489)
  Interesting article on building an open-tube Dobsonian based on the designs of Albert Highe
• Mirror-O-Matic (1,115)
  Want to grind your own mirrors? Don't want to wear your arms out? try building one of these mirror grinding machines. Plans and instructions for the ATM.
• Nils Olaf Carlin - Hacksaw Spider (1,289)
  Nils Olaf carlin's interesting article on bulign a secondary spider for a Newtonian using hacksaw blades. Nils is the author of the seminal treatise on Newtonian Collimation using a barlowed laser.
• Nils Olaf Carlin - Newtonian Collimation (1,215)
  Nils Olaf Carlin's breakthrough paper on Newtonian Collimation using a barlowed laser. This is valuable information even if you don't own a Newt. it'll help you understand collimation in other scope species as well.
• Optical Ed's (975)
  Free interferometric testing of primary and secondary, equatorial platforms, solar projection
• Shane LaPierre's ATM Pages (956)
  Shane has several interesting articles on his ATM projects on his web site.
• Star Astronomy's ATM Pages (995)
  S*T*A*R has an active ATM (Amateur Telescope Making) group. They have several articles and links to resources that are useful if you are interested in learning more about telescope making,