ATM (Amateur Telescope Makers) Pages
- Starting with my own:
- Andrew Borg also made a split ring mount, similar to mine
- The Telescope Makers Web Ring
- The ATM Page - Highly recommended
- The ATM Journal
- ATM Mailing List - Archive or direct to their search engine
- ATM Mailing List - FAQ
- The Bolton Group - Telescope Making pages - Very well done
- Fraser Valley Astronomers Society (British Columbia Canada) - ATM links
- The Stellafane Home page - Web Home of the Springfield Telescope Makers
- The Tallahassee Astronomical Society
- Telescope Makers Group
- Kentucky Governor's Scholars - Simple ATM projects for students
- Mel Bartels' telescopes and telescope making pages - Highly recommended
- Mel Bartels - Computer Operated Telescopes
- Mark Daugherty's Amateur Astronomy Resources - Very nice Page
- Mark VandeWettering's excellent Amateur Telescope Making Pages
- Dave Rowe's ATM Pages featering various projects
- Dave Rose's Astronomy and ATM pages
- Brett's "Telescope Making - Made Easy" - very nice ATM site (Warning: page don't work with Netscape)
- Jason Fields - ATM links collected from reading sci.astro.amateur & the ATM list
- Doc G's Info Site - Lots of illustrated telescope accessories
- Berthold Hamburger's ATM page
- Steve Lee's ATM pages
- Don Odegard's well illustrated ATM pages
- Glens Oliver's well made "Stargazer MkIII-D" Equatorial Telescope
- James Lerch's 8" Binocular scope page - fully illustrated from start to finish, including computerising it
- Robert Duvall's Amateur Telescope Making pages
- S*T*A*R Member Equipment Pages - Lots of home made Telescopes
- Ed Stewart - Astro Designs
- The Astronomical Unit - Stephen Tonkin's excellent ATM Home Page
- Stephen Tonkin's comprehensive list of ATM Software
- Chuck Shaw's STARS pages on ATMing, CCD Astrophotography & Observing
- Peter Smith's pages on making eyepieces using common materials
- The Amateur Telescope Making Webring - About 100 ATM link sites
- Links2go - Lots of Amateur Telescope Making Links
- Collection of links when building your own Observatory
Sites uncluding Mirror Grinding
- John's Amateur Telescope Making Page - Lots of useful ATM info, particularly on mirror making and testing
- For the beginner ATM - Step-by-step mirror making flowchart with links
- Victor's Home Page - All the info you'll need on grinding your own mirror
- Steven Lee's very comprehensive ATM page also incuding Mirror Grinding
- Danie Malan's South African ATM page including local mirror making resources
- Jack Schmidling Productions - Telescopes/Cameras/Mirror making tools
- Ricardo Dunna's pages on mirror grinding including software and Focault pictures
- Berthold Hamburger's ATM pages - From mirror grinding to his own observatory
- Robert Duvall - Very comprehensive and well illustrated Mirror Making pages
- John Nichol's ATM site - Describing the making of a 19-inch plate glass mirror
- Bill's illustrated site on building his 14.5 inch telescope from scratch
Dobsonian designs
- Steve Scampini - Thoughts on Building a Dobsonian
- Fully illustrated account for building a Dobsonian
- Dobsonian Evolution - Illustrated links to compact designs
- Jim Fly (ATM Craftsman & Engineer) - 8" Motorized Dob
- Geoff Chester - Nice description of the building of his 8-inch Dobsonian "Ol' Blue Eye"
- San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers - Building a Dobsonian Telescope
- Brad Davy's 8" f8 Newtonion with some simple but clever features
- Dan Gray's ATM Page - 8" to 14" computer controlled scopes
- Brent Russell - South African ATM, describing his 7",12" & 16" homebuild Dobs
- Dave Sopchak's 10" & 18.5" Dobsonians
- Ray Cash's very nice 13" Airline-Transportable "Travel Scope"
- James Crombie - describing construction of his 15" Truss Style Dobsonian
- Obsession Telescopes Web Site - Massive Dobs
- TRO 30" Dobsonian Telescope from 1" thick plate glass
- NJ Night Sky - ATM projects include 8" Dobsonian and a number of smaller gadgets
Equatorial Platforms
- A Low Profile Equatorial Table - By David Shouldice
- Building a two-sector equatorial platform for a newtonian telescope with a dobson mount - by Jan van Gastel
- Dave Molyneaux's Equatorial Platform for his Dobsonian telescope
- Bill Prewitt's Cylindrical Bearing Equatorial Platform - very well illustrated article
- Don Odegard's Equatorial Platform - very clear pictures
- Don Davies' Equatorial Platform with a diffirence - using casters, flat pieces of aluminium and teflon pads
- Robert Duvall - An Evolved Poncet Platform
- Tom Osypowski's compact commercial platform
"Barn Door" Drives - Tracking Camera Mounts
- Robert Duvall's Barn Door Tracker page - Very nice Page
- Brian Rachford - A low-tech barndoor drive
- Stephen Tonkin - A Hand-Driven Scotch Mount
- Stephen Tonkin - "A Better Barn Door"
- Ray Grover - A Quartz controlled Scotch mount
- Plans for a "Scotch Mount" Camera-Tracking Platform
- Jeff DeTray - Barn door camera mount
- Kevin Kilburn - Heavy Duty Tangent Arm Drive
- Astronomy Boy's Barn Door Camera Mount
Tutorials and Info
- The ATM site - Resources and Techniques for the Amateur
- Massive ATM links page
- DAN'S "CANNED MOUSE" - Converting a computer mouse into high resolution telescope encoders
- Victor's Home Page - All the info you'll need on grinding your own mirror
- Steve Scampini - Thoughts on Building a Dobsonian
- All About Curved Spiders
- Collimation
- Working With Stepper Motors - A very nice tutorial for beginners
- Control of Stepping Motors - a tutorial by Douglas W. Jones
- A whealth of information, tutorials, etc on stepper motors including ones salvaged from floppy disk drives
- Stepper Motor, Information and Technical Forum - A treasure trove of ideas and information on Steppers
- Lots of links on controlling all kinds of motors, including Steppers
- PC mouse programming information
- Majosoft's Hobby Site - Lots of info on making an Engraving Machine
Online ATM Tools
- Mirror Cell Design Calculator
- Online Newtonian Telescope Design Planner
- Mel Bartels - Newtonian Diagonal Analysis
- Sveinung Vegum's Telescopecalculator - Computing of telescopic visual and photographic field
- Danie Malan's ATM index to Sky & Telescope (1965 - 1997)
ATM Software
- MODAS (Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software) - Telescope Making software
- Automated Mirror Cell Optimization design optimization of mirror cells using a CAD tool called Plop
- ATMOS - Amateur Telescope Maker Optical Design and Analysis Software
Homebrewed CCD's
- Richard Berry's "Cookbook CCD" Page based on his famous book
- The CCD Amateur Astronomy Centre
- Richard Berry 's Cook-Book Camera Home Page
- The Cook-Book Camera Builders homepage
- Danie Malan's List of South African Cookbook Camera Builders
- Sarel Wagner's pages on his Cookbook CB245 CCD Camera and Foucault Tester
- António Cidadão's modified B/W QuickCam
- Michel Collart - Modifications and Pictures from turning a QuickCam into an AstroCam
- Stardial - Stationary CCD Cameras with an 8x5° field
Sundials
- The Sundial page - Lots of Sundial Resources
