Last revised: April 15, 2007
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5360 East Hunter Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92806, Phone: (714) 695-1211 Fax: (714) 695-1411Visit Archer Optics OK, here's one of those things that you might not need all the time, but when you need one, nothing else will do. Archer is a source of standard and custom reticles on glass, including crosshairs and measuring scales. Several standard patterns, and they do customs.
124 N. Second Street, LaSalle, CO 80645, Phone 970-284-9471, Fax 970-284-9473 Go To AstroSystems ...or... email info@astrosystems.biz Primarily parts for big Dobsonians. Truss tubes, mirror cells, formica, secondaries, focusers, huge elevation bearings (like on the Obsession scopes), and more. Produces telescope kits.
7756 Oak Ridge Hwy., Knoxville, Tennessee, 37931, USA, (865) 769-8777 A variety of accessories for the telescope maker and astronomer, including tripods, finders, mounts, and eyepieces. Most items available through dealers, some direct. Go to Burgess Optical
California Tubular Designs, P.O. Box 134, Los Gatos, CA 95031-0134 This company supplies tubes for Newtonian (Dob) telescopes, in custom sizes with decorative exterior designs and light baffling interior. Go To... California Tubular Designs or Email ctd@astronomy-mall.com
Peter Ceravolo, Box 1427, Ogdensburg, NY 13669 (613) 258-4480 Supplies for Interferometry, testing for ATM's, instruction booklets, interferometer parts and analysis software. Go visit Ceravolo Optical Systems or email peter@ceravolo.com
Don Hoying, 45 Difficult Dr.,Idaho City, ID 83631 Balance weights for Dobsonians made to order that strap on in seconds. Half the price of other balance systems. Visit: Don Hoying or email... hoying@att.net
15736 McQuiston Lane, Grass Valley, CA 95945, (530) 274-9113 Tom Osypowski, Complete line of single and dual axis Poncet platforms, for putting a motorized tracking capability on your Dobsonian. Go To Equatorial Systems or email tomosy@nccn.net
54 Church St, Apt 1, North Andover, MA 01845, Phone 617 835 4153 www.InspirationToolworks.com or Email jeff@inspirationtoolworks.com
120 Golden Pheasant Dr., Slidell, LA 70461-3116 An interesting focuser - a Helical Crayford. Visit KineOptics or email... joe@kineoptics.com
810 Quail St. Unit E., Lakewood, CO 80215 Orders 800-247-0304, info 303-233-5353 Better known as JMI, the makers of the NGT-18 telescope. Visit JMI or email info@jimsmobile.com They carry one of the largest lines of focusers on the market, including motorfocusers. All JMI focusers are Crayford type, often considered the best. They also carry NGC Max computers.
Hollywood General Machining, Inc.,1033 N. Sycamore Avenue Los Angeles, California 90038, TEL: 323-462-2855, FAX: 323-462-2682 Fine, rugged mounts and accessories (although a bit biased to German Equatorials), Losmandy mounts and components are sold by Celestron and other big companies. They sell direct as well. Visit http://www.losmandy.com/ or email scott@losmandy.com
138 B Lamar St., West Babylon, NY 11704, Phone 631 253-0720, Fax 631 491-5519 Parts for Truss style Dobsonians designed for quick assembly and disassembly. Brackets for the bottom box and top cage to accept aluminum poles. One size of aluminum poles (you cut to final length). All parts are Stainless Steel or Black Anodized Al., except the upper clamps which are Galvanized Steel. Visit http://www.malcoprecision.com/ or Email mal@malcoprecision.com
MC Telescopes, RR #3 Box 3745, Nicholson, PA 18446, PHONE: (570)942-6838 MC is a truss telescope manufacturer that sells mirror cells, diagonal holders, bearings and other parts useful to the ATM. Visit http://www.mctelescopes.com/ or EMAIL: jm@mctelescopes.com
114 Ardmore Ave., Danville, PA 17821. Ph: 570-275-7935 Supplier of Crayford focusers, helical focuser and laser collimator. Visit MTA or email... moonlite@focuser.com
P.O. Box 19632, Portland, OR 97280, 503-244-0503 Telescope Mounts and accessories, catalog $2.
Mountain Instruments, 9004 Pinfield Ct., Elk Grove, Calif. 95758 (916) 422-0962 8am-5pm, (916) 422-9331 Fax A high end dealer of very fine German Equatorial Mounts with GoTo systems. Go To Mountain Instruments ... or Email larry@mountaininstruments.com
33918 Macomb, Farmington, MI, 48335, (810)-476-5893 "Quality clock drives and telescope accessories", according to the catalog. Highly precise gears, worm drives.
2450 17th Avenue, PO Box 1158 Santa Cruz, CA 95061 800-447-1001 Orion has gradually become a complete supplier for ATMs: spiders, diagonals, focusers, mirror cells, finders, filters, eyepieces, barlows, etc.. One of America's largest dealers. They have several email addresses: Sales/Product Info, New Product department, and Customer Support should help you get started, or Go To Orion Telescope Center
Parks Optical, 750 East Easy St., Simi Valley, CA 93065 USA (805) 522-6722, Fax (805) 522-0033 markets parts used in their telescopes; mirror cells, spiders, focusers, mounts, clock drives, correctors, eyepieces, etc. Go To Go To Parks Telescopes ...or email... parksoptical@parksoptical.com
Phone 305 253-5707 or fax 305 253-5642
Need a custom part for your design? These guys offer custom machining services for small metal parts, generally up to 6" diameter or 18" long. That special bearing or adapter may be closer and cheaper than you think. Go to Precise Parts or email inquire@preciseparts.comP.O. Box 448, 108 E. Granville Road, Unit F, Worthington, Ohio 43085, Toll Free Order Line 1-866-227-6240 fax: (614)-785-0401 Other inquiries (614)-785-0245 Secondary holders and spiders for Newtonian and Cassegrain telescopes. Pyrex and quartz secondary mirrors. Pre-flocked phenolic telescope tubes. Light absorbing material (i.e. "flocked paper"). Go To ProtoStar, or Email protostar@fpi-protostar.com.
122 E. Main St, Mesa, AZ 85201 (602)-835-1767 or (800)-574-2589 Restorations, optical testing, unobstructed reflectors, as well as custom telescope manufacturing.
520-564-2886 Provides a small line of custom machined parts as well as used parts. Go to Russell Optics
1-800-235-3344 (National); 1-800-847-2673 (California) Scope City is a major astronomy dealer, like Orion (also out of California). A large store like Orion, but with apparently less options for the ATM. They carry some finders, and mounting rings that might be useful, but more in the line of what commercial scope owners will be looking for. Visit Scope City or email scopecity@scopecity.com
914 SE 14th Place, Cape Coral, FL 33990; Phone: (239) 945-6763 Fax: (239) 458-9325 Toll-free Order Line: (866) 458-7658 Specializing in many of those indispensible little accessories you need for amateur astronomy and photography. They sell primaries from 4.5 to 12", and diagonals. Visit www.scopetronix.com or email questions@scopetronix.com more email addresses on the website's contact page.
5303 Live Oak Cove, Round Rock, TX 78681 Accessories and hardware, including servomotors and encoders, CB245 Cookbook camera parts, lots of little things for modifying/improving commercial scopes. Visit http://www.scopestuff.com/ or email jimh@scopestuff.com
9215 Mero Road Snohomish, WA 98290, (360)-794-7757 Custom built telescopes and oak veneer tubes for atm's. There's some pretty interesting hardware here. Go To Sky Valley Scopes, or Email info@skyvalleyscopes.com.
9333 Crowley Rd., Suite A, Fort Worth, TX 76134-5904, (800) 354-1256 / (817) 293-8446 / fax (817)293-8606 sells "SKY PROBE 1000" Telescope Positioning System, SW for PC. motor driver electronics and cables, hand control, stepper motors.
233 Bannock St., Denver, CO 303-722-4104 Mirror cells, 4-1/4 to 20"
P.O. Box 68282, Schaumburg, IL 60168-0282, phone: 847-985-9595 High quality Crayford focusers. Got to Starlight Instruments or Email: dschmidt@megsinet.net
2184 Primrose Ave., Vista, CA 92084, ph/fax-619-599-4219 Equatorial platform and binocular viewer kits. Go To TL Systems ...or... Email tlsystem@ix.netcom.com
3349 SR99 S, Monroeville OH 444847, (419) 465-2997 Go To Tech2000 ...or email...tddi@accnorwalk.com Dob Driver II computerized drive systems for commercial or homemade Dobsonians.
211 Whitfield Park Avenue, Sarasota, FL 34243 (941) 758-9890 Collimation instruments and information, Go To Tectron ...or email ... aatclark@aol.com
Tele Vue Optics, Inc., 32 Elkay Dr., Chester, NY 10918, 845-469-4551 Best known for their eyepieces, they also carry other accessories. Visit Tele Vue
P.O.Box 1205, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 phone 800-521-2828, Fax 734-665-1815 Focusers, finders, mirror cells, CCD camera kits for the Cookbook Camera, telescope tubes. Go to University Optics
P.O. Box 369, New Oxford, PA 17350, 717-624-8993, or 800-242-5216, fax 717-624-4220
Paper tubes, intended for shipping, but good for small telescopes, up to 8" ID. visit Yazoo Mills ...or email: sales@yazoomills.com(Barry Arnold) 433 Sioux Road, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada T8A 4H2 Phone/Fax:(780) 467-4781 Newtonian primary cells, custom-built with larger optic sets. Machine shop services for optical parts. Small parts aluminum anodizing. Direct vision prism type spectroscope.
1610 Churchill Ave.,London, Ontario, Canada, N5W 2K9 Currently mirror cells and focusers, with more planned. Contact Joseph O'Neil. Email joneil@oneilphoto.on.ca .. or Go To DAR Astro Machining
321 Jean-Cadieux, Varennes, Qc J3X 1H6 Canada, TEL/FAX: (450) 929-2879 Primarily a seller of manufactured telescopes, they sell a line of primaries in the hard-to-find sizes of 4.5 to 10". They also sell secondaries (diagonals) focusers, finders, filters and more. The parts/optics webpage is: ...here..., while the top level page is ...here.... Email astronat@aei.ca.
Gary's Astro Fabricating Offset spiders, quality helical focusers, collimating plug, parfocalizing rings. Contact Gary Wolanski. Visit Gary's Astro Fabricating... or email... gary_wolanski@telus.net
52 McIntyre Place, Kitchener, Ontario Canada, N2R 1E4, Tel/Fax: (519) 748-5330 A gear manufacturer interested in supplying high quality gears to the ATM. Go To Kitchener Gear
19 Sutton Wick Lane, Drayton, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4HH, United Kingdom tel/fax +44 1235 531198 Go To Tpoint Did you ever wonder how the big professional observatories achieve the telescope pointing accuracies that they need? One answer is software sold by TPOINT, Telescope Modeling Software. "TPOINT is a unique interactive modeling tool used on the majority of the World's largest telescopes. TPOINT analyses pointing observations to discover and measure misalignments and flexures, which the telescope's control system can then allow for. "
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