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	The ATM Site - http://www.atmsite.org Repository for resources and techniques by chronological, keyword, or author.
	Mike Lindner's Telescope Making - http://home.att.net/~mikel/ Links to completed telescopes and free mirror testing software.
	Weird Telescopes - http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/homepage/alumni/dstevick/weird.htm Features several unique solutions for telescope issues with images.
	Amateur Telescope Makers (ATM) Archives - http://astro.umsystem.edu/atm/ To disseminate knowledge, experiences, ideas, and resources.
	An Amateur Telescope Maker's Projects - http://www.foothill.net/~sayre/ Articles on various telescope designs.

	Stellafane ATM Pages - http://stellafane.org/atm/ Simple and proven techniques that most appropriate for the beginner and the novice mirror and telescope makers.
	ATM - Amateur Telescope Making - http://home.wanadoo.nl/jhm.vangastel/Astronomy/ Information on telescope building, equatorial platform, scotch mount, and binocular mount, and information how to let a Dobsonian telescope move smoothly.
	How Products Are Made: Telescope - http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Telescope.html Background, raw materials, and the manufacturing process with references.
	Computer Operated Telescopes - http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/cot/cot.html#CONTENTS Features plans and designs for stepper or servo motor layouts as well as features, free software, how-to information, and links.
	San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers: Building Telescopes - http://www.sfsidewalkastronomers.org/index.php?page=building-telescopes Plans and how-to's for building a Dobsonian telescope, solar filter, and mirror-making techniques.

	The ATM's Workshop - http://www.atm-workshop.com/ Areas covered include optics, woodworking, metalworking, electronics, programming, and telescope equipment, and tips and techniques.
	Dan Bakken and Hercules - http://www.runway.net/pilots/dan/welcome.html World's largest portable amateur telescope, 41.2" Newtonian reflector with pictures of the telescope and during construction.
	The Amateur Telescope Makers Email List - http://www.atmlist.net/ FAQ, managing a subscription, and archives.
	Got Grit? - http://www.gotgrit.com/ Telescope mirror making supplies and tutorials.
	Poor Meadow Dyke Observatory - http://www.pmdo.com/atm.htm Construction details with images of Dobsonian, GEM reflector, portable Dobsonian, 20" goto scope, dome, and 20" goto Dobsonian.

	Making and Motorizing of Telescope - http://koti.phnet.fi/lottaki/ Construction of small newtonian and Mel Bartels system for computer control.
	Scope Making - http://www.scopemaking.net Plans and instructions for building a Dobsonian, refractor, wooden tripod, eyepieces and other accessories.
	Astronomy and Telescope Making - http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.hanlon/ List of projects, mirror testing, do it yourself projects, CCD imaging and techniques, and Messier observations.
	Dave's ATM Page - http://www.mindspring.com/~davebevel/ Information to add altitude-azimuth controller and unipolar stepper motor controller to a telescope, and directions with drawings and images of individual parts for a ten inch scope.
	Foucault Tester - http://pages.interlog.com/~kdel/ Building a tester with a unique return mechanism, simplistic in design and very practical, enables the user to obtain highly accurate results.

	Astral Weeks - http://www.astralweeks.org/ Construction of reflector, refractor, and mini solar cam with images, and astro images.
	The Construction - Littlebear Observatory - http://www.littlebear-observatory.com/construction.htm Information and photos on the construction of the observatory.
	Shane LaPierre's ATM Pages - http://www.ct-astronomer.com 20" Dobsonian, 8" versatile newt, cookbook 245 CCD, equipment, images, logs, and links.
	A Photovisual Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope - http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/%7Ebaril/Maksutov/Maksutov.html Information acquired during design and construction of a 7.5" aperture F8.
	Bill's 14.5 Inch Telescope Making Project - http://www.geocities.com/telescope1999/14-5inch.html Description, photographs, rebuilding of telescope, making simple lens for reflector, and links.

	Mike's Telescope Workshop - http://www.mdpub.com/scopeworks/ Photos and descriptions of binocular stand, several telescopes, solar camera, and links for parts.
	Al's Custom Telescope Accessories - http://www.alsastro.com Oak tripod, tripod accessories, leg kits, feedback, and links.
	Meade 826 Reflector Telescope - http://www.geocities.com/astronomy_nj/ Details the restoration of the equipment from the late 1970's.
	Mirror Making and Other Activities by Laurie Hall - http://www.turbofast.com.au/astrotel/ Mirror making, the equipment and testing equipment.
	The Octagonal Observatory - http://www.lpople.btinternet.co.uk/ Documents design and building of an observatory for NexStar11 GPS telescope with images.

	Telescope Making 1997 - 2000 - http://members.fortunecity.com/nikcain/ Personal log of making a 10 inch Newtonian telescope and mirror, including pictures.
	ATM Letters - http://members.kabsi.at/i.krastev/atmlj/ Electronic based Journal with current issue, past issues, and archives.
	100% Do It Yourself - http://queribus.free.fr/Astronomie/eaccueil.html Equatorial table, hydraulic focusing system, stepper motor electronic controls, hydraulic drive, advice to build a telescope, and beginners corner.
	I and My Telescope - http://www.geocities.com/g1tv/english.html Amateur telescope making, mirror grinding.

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