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Some useful ATM resources on the web

Amateur Telescope Maker's Archives

The ATM Resource List

The ATM Site

The Amateur Telescope Making Journal

Star Astronomy - Telescope Making Links

 

Selected lightweight scopes by ATMers

Bruce Sayre's Home Page

Stathis ATM page

Mel Bartel's Home Page

String Telescope

Greg Babcock's 24" f/4 ultralight dobsonian

 

My articles

16" f/4.5 Mark V

Two Simple "Grab-and-Go" Telescopes

Two Scopes Using Three Parallel Struts (Mark IV)

Lightweight 12-1/2" f/5 Dobsonian (Mark IV)

12.5" f/5 Mark III

6" f/5 Airline Transportable Dobsonian

17.5" f/4.5 Lightweight Portable Dobsonian

6" f/5 portable cube

 

Webpages of some vendors that I use

http://www.starlightinstruments.com/

Jim's Mobile, Inc.

McMaster-Carr Supply Co

Nova Optical Systems

ProtoStar Astronomy Products

Shapiro Supply Co.

Stellarvue

Swayze Optical, Inc.

 

Other sources of portable and lightweight dobsonians

AstroSystems

Discovery Telescopes

Litebox Telescopes

Mag 1 Instruments

Obsession Telescopes

Starmaster Portable Telescopes

Starsplitter Telescopes