Videos: Amateur Telescope Making Products

Part 1 shows how to pour a 15" pitch lap, to be used for rough polishing on the 20" mirror. Covers preparation of the mirror and lap ...

hubach.deviantart.com 1k Views 7/26/08 10k Views 3/6/09 This is my father's garage where he is currently working on his telescope hobby. The ...

In this video, I review an old standard, and one of my favorite books, Amateur Telescope Making Volume Two. This work has stood the test of time ...

This is a yearly telescope making convention called Stellafane. It is located in Springfield Vermont. An amazing group of amateur astronomers who ...

This video is my review of a standard in the hobby, Amateur Telescope Making Volume 1. It was filmed at Stellafane on July 11, 2009, where so much ...

In this video, I review Amateur Telescope Making, Volume Three. This work is as valid today as the day it was published. It covers many advanced ...

TelescopeMan records the Sept 2011 meeting of the ATM special interest group -- Texas Astronomical Society at www.texasastro.org Several ...

TelescopeMan records the April 2012 meeting of the amateur telescope making special interest group- Texas Astronomical Society. The video was ...

This video shows how to setup a mirror grinding machine for fixed-post grinding, also known as spin grinding or spinning. After setup, you'll ...

This video shows us opening the oven close to the end of a successful casting. It also shows us using a grinding machine to grind the mirror ...

This video shows how to make a tool used to fabricate precision optical surfaces from dental Stone

In this edition of The Amateur Telescope Maker's Workshop, we continue to set up the mold for pouring the tool, we then measure the dental ...

Gordon Waite shows some steps during fine grinding of the 20" mirror. As the grind progresses through the grades of abrasives, see the ...

In this video, I continue the rough grinding of the primary mirror for my Buchroeder Quad Schiefspiegler telescope. I have decided, against the ...

with a pitch lap and how to find the focal point. ... bbcskyatnightmag ... Telescopes telescope "amateur telescope making" " ...

In this video, I continue rough grinding my 12.5 inch primary mirror for my Buchroeder Quad Schiefspiegler. The radius of curvature will be 300 ...

In this video, I continue to work on my 12.5 inch primary mirror for the Buchroeder Quad Schiefspiegler. I am running into problems as the mirror ...

A description and demonstration of how to ake a refrractive telescope. Its 2009 , international year of astronomy ; lets be galileos today.

In this edition we mix the dental stone and pour it into the mold. Once it has set we remove the dam around the mold, inspect the tool and place ...

In this video, I demonstrate my method of checking the depth of the curve that is being generated during rough grinding through the use of a ...