Astronomy Links

ATM Resources

• Mel Bartel's home page The best resource on the Internet for the amateur telescope maker.
• Miata Scope, 10" The original MiataScope.  I am amazed that a 10 inch telescope would fit!

Telescopes and parts

• Orion Telescopes Great place for medium size telescopes and great equipment
• Meade Telescopes and CCD equipment.
• Celestron Telescopes
• Obsession Telescopes Home of the original, and many feel, best of the BIG scopes.
• AstroSystems Home of the TeleKit.  This is a beautiful large telescope kit that you assemble yourself.
• Protostar Secondary mounts and flocking paper.
  

General observing and reviews

• Sky and Telescope - Stargazing basics This fabulous group of articles covers everything for the beginning and experienced astronomer alike. This is a good place to start into the astronomy hobby.
• Sky and Telescope - Observing Custom made maps of the night sky.
• Cloudy Nights Check out the reviews here, they are great!
  

ATM e-mail groups

• Cloudy Nights Click on "Forums/All Forums/ATM and Optics Forum"
  

Astrophotography

• Chris Schur This is one of the best astrophotography sites anywhere.  Chris and I met at EVAC in Phoenix.
  

Great Links

• Ben Davies telescope and links A fabulous list of links, including every part needed to build a telescope.

Miscellaneous sites

• Astro-Tom Great web site of a friend from AVAC club in Palmdale, California
• SAC - Saguaro Astronomy Club Check out the "Things to View", lots of good lists of objects to find.
• EVAC - East Valley Astronomy Club One of the best.  Check out Equipment Reviews, Binoviewer Shootout.  Also, check out the member web pages.
• TAAS - The Albuquerque Astronomical Society My current club.  Also one of the greatest astronomy clubs.  It includes an ATM group, educational outreach group, great monthly meetings, fabulous star parties and a club observatory.