Telescope Making Parts and Supplies

• Chabot Space and Science Center
• The Telescope Makers Work Shop meets almost every Friday from 7 PM to 10 PM. 
• Telescope making supplies, August, 2001. ( Mark Thein mthein@earthlink.net )

  	Mirror Blank	Sealed cement and tile fine grinding tools. May be used for the pitch lap after grinding.
  6 inch	$39	$10
  8 inch	$65	$15
  10 inch	$130	$20
  12 inch	$205	$30
  16 inch		$50

•  Sidewalk Astronomers 

• John Dobson
• Phone: (415) 665 4054 
• Telescope making classes at the Randall Museum every fall. 

• Edmund Scientific Company  

• 101 E. Glouchester Pike 
• Barrington, NJ 08007 1380 
• Glass 100 lines per inch ronchi gratings. 
• Mirror making equipment.
• Various lasers. Educational toys.

• Willmann-Bell, Inc.  

• Publishers and Booksellers
•  P.O. Box 35025
•  Richmond, Virginia 23235 
• 1 800 825 STAR
•   Willmann-Bell has a new version of 'Amateur Telescope Making' books one, two and three. The new ATM's have been reindexed for ease of use. Advanced Astronomy and Space Science Books and Software. Mirror making kits and supplies including 12 micron and 6 micron AlO abrasives to be used at the last stage of fine grinding before polishing. The Willmann-Bell catalog has much interesting mirror making information.

• ASM Products

• Ceramic/Glass low expansion mirror blanks.
• Blanks can be purchased pre-generated.

• United Lens

• Mirror Blanks

 Telescopes and Telescope Supplies

• Orion, Telescope and Binocular

• Cupertino, CA

•  Scope City  

• Northpoint Centre
• 350 Bay St.
• San Francisco, CA
• Large selection for Amateur Astronomers

•   Aluminum Coating  

• 807 Rutherdale
• San Carlos, CA
• 94070
• Things That People Aluminum Coat

• Mirrors made from Coke bottle bottoms.
• Marble mirrors. (marble a mineral) 
• Obsidian mirrors.
• The secondary for a Schmidt Cassegrain. 
• The spot on a Maksutov-Cassegrain meniscus lens. 
• Tiny prisms for a chamber scope used for examining turbine blades inside a jet engine. 
• Density 3 elliptical sun filters for sun telescopes.

ATM, Amateur Telescope Making Links

 

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