Amateur Telescope Making

Life before machine, the barrel
Grinding machine
Old foucault tester
Foucault tester
Newton 310 mm (12")
Drawings of a secondary holder
Grams
Solar filter
Väisälä test - Zonal interferometry

My ATM Library

Links to other ATM sites in Finland

Optics and Telescope Making Section of the Astronomical Association URSA
Kari Laihia's Telescopes Project Page
Jorma Koski
The Northern Observer
Jaakko Kokkonen's Telescope Project Page
Urpo Hietala's Telescope     Astronomy     Home Page
Allar Saviauk Telescope Making     15cm F6 Dobson     30cm F/6 Dobson
Etelä-Suomen kosmologinen seura - Newton 500mm     Observatory
Aki Lötjönen's Making and Motorizing of Telescope
Jorma Mäntylä
Anssi Mäntykivi
JS-Observatory
Veijo Kallio
Kai Forssen

ATM links

The Amateur Telescope Makers Email List