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Compact Designs:
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Tom Clark of Tectron Telescopes and Amateur Astronomy Magazine started this trend in the '80's. This is an 18-incher, ready for transport. |
Hawaiian astronomer |
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These two suitcases contain all the pieces for Jack Gelfand's 16" scope:
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| Chuck Faytak of Erie, PA has crafted a fine scope. E-mail him for more pics!
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| Kurt Maurer's scopes and home-built accessories (including equatorial platform). Don't neglect to check out his remake of an Astroscan into a "mini-Obsession," seen here at his knee. |
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Tom Noe of Wylie,
Texas handcrafts top-of-the-line compact telescopes of various sizes. Go to Linda Silas' Homepage (Tom's "significant
other") to download a complete .pdf manual for one of his scopes (click on the
"Graphic Design" button and scroll down to "Technical Manuals and
Brochures"--you'll see the images at the left).
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David North's two-tube 12.5-incher.
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Koalimation bag, truss bag, and 8" Travelscope by Akkana Peck. Deck by David North.
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Paul LeFevre's 6" Travel Scope (and others) See also Scott Neuman's 8"--inspired by Paul's design.
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Ultra-Light Designs:
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Greg Babcock's ultra-light Dob, and fine WebPages. |
Frédéric Géa's 31.5" (800mm) Ultralight. |
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Albert Highe's three-tube 12.5 ultra-light (LightWare Telescope Designs). See also Albert's Homepage for a look at his six-incher. |
Paul Stock and Mike Reed's Backpacking Telescope Page
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Tom Krajci's ultra-light with "virtual counterweight. |
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Gary Wolanski's 40lb 16" project. Visit, too, Gary's Astro Fabricating Page for excellent low-profile focusers and spiders. |
Bruce Sayre's ultra-light metal telescopes. |
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Tracking Solutions: |
Mel Bartels' ultra-light 20" with computerized alt-az motors: An ATM site with loads of information! |
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Don Halter's computerized 16" Dob. |
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Jim Fly's
8" motorized Dob and very nice WebPages.
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See also: TLSystems
for EQ Platform kits. Warren Peters for
plans Jan van Gastel for plans. Don Odegard's eq. platform and other pages. David Shouldice's low profile eq. platform. An "evolved Poncet" page Johnsonian Designs: Adjustable Equatorial Platforms
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Equatorial Platforms
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Other Valuable Resources:
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Don't just subscribe to Amateur Astronomy: order all the back issues, too! |
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Another fine quarterly magazine: ATM Journal. |
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THE ATM book of recent years. Written by TM masters
Richard Berry and Dave Kriege. Available through Dave's Obsession Telescopes.
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Excellent Commercial Dobsonians: |
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| Litebox Designs Mag1 Instruments (not a Dob; but not to be overlooked!) Obsession Telescopes Sky Valley Scopes StarMaster Telescopes Starsplitter Telescopes Tectron Telescopes A Binocular Telescope Company Discovery Telescopes LightWare Telescope Designs Black Knight Telescopes
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Miscellaneous ATM
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