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Telescope Makers
The ATM Page
- A WWW resource for Amateur Telescope Making
Mel Bartel's Telescopes and Telescope Making Page
Mark's Notes for the Amateur Telescope Maker
Steven Lee's ATM Page
Build Your Own Dobsonian Telescope
Amateur Telescope Making
Weird Telescopes
Berthold Hamburger's ATM Homepage
ATM Resource List - - Bob Lombard
UK ATM Resources
New Program !
MODAS Optical Design Program - ATM Software from Ivan Krastev
The new MODAS 3.1 Release has over 20 new analysis and helpful features--
aberration curves-spherical aberr., coma, astigmatism, field curvature,
distortion, chromatic aberr., lateral color, spherochromatism, Spot Size
and Wavefront analysis vs. field, focus, wavelength, Vignetting Plot,
tools - export graphics to BMP, JPEG, duplicate and compare graphics, generat Custom Reports and much more)
Ray tracing trough tilted surfaces is also supported.
Download MODAS Freeware Release 3 from Ivan's home page at:
URL: http://ivankr.tripod.com/modas.html
Amateur Societies' ATM Pages
Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
The Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS)
Stellafane Home Page The Springfield Telescope Makers
ATM Resources - from
Los Angeles Astronomical Society (LAAS)
Manchester Astronomical Society's
Scotch Mount
Riverside Telescope Makers Conference
ATM Links from Herzler's
Hideout - Telescope making groups/classes are often the way to go!
Aperture Fever Strikes Hard!
Hercules! - - Dan Bakken's Cure for Apeture Fever
Group 70 - Making a 72"(1.8M) instrument
This international group, is home based in California, USA
Other Telescope/ATM Pages
ATM Archives - and -
ATM Mailing List FAQ
The Cookbook Camera Home Page - from Richard Berry
ATM Journal Home Page
Weird Telescopes from David Stevick
Barn door
Drive - Scotch Mount from Stephen Tonkin
ATM Lenses and Eyepieces
ATM Page in Spanish
Big Telescopes around the World
Large Telescopes
- from the SEDS site
Special Astrophysical Observatory
Home of the Big Altazimuth Telescope (BTA)
Gemini 8-Meter Telescopes
W. M. Keck Observatory Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Subaru Telescope 8.2 Meters !
Here's Aperture Fever at a New Height!
Hubble Space Telescope Space Telescope Science Inst
New Generation Telescope
Greenbank Telescope
The largest, steerable radio dish in the world!
Orbiting Astronomical Observatories - Links to telescopes that have been launched from SEDS site
Last Modified 02/02/02
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