Amateur Telescope Making Telescopes I have Designed or Built - past to present Uploaded 12/5/17

Here you will find a photo pictorial of some of the telescope making projects I have accomplished, since I started in the early 80's. The first telescope I every built was the 16", and then continued with various new 12.5" scopes, and several 8" Newts. Currently there are no on going ATM projects, however I operate two separate observatories with commercial astrographs riding on home made mountings or cradles Ive designed. I also designed and built three roll off roof observatories as well.

Click Thumbnails below for furthur info on each instrument!

The 16" f/4.4 Observatory Photo/Visual
The 16" f/4.4 Orion 16 "Transportable"
 The 16" f/4.4 Lightweight Transportable
The 16" f/4.4 Sphere Observatory
  The 12.5" f/5 Trifid Transportable Visual
The 12.5" f/5 Astrograph Rev 1 - Photographic
  The 12.5" f/5 Astrograph Rev 2 - Photographic
Latest 12.5" f/5 Trifid Photo / Visual
The 8" f/5 SAC Club Telescope Visual
The 8" f/4 Perseus Visual
The 8' f/4 Pegasus Photo / Visual
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