Web Contributions

You can help Stellafane by contributing to our web site. We are looking for articles, artwork or photographs in the following categories:

• Convention Articles or Pictures: Our most popular category, many people have sent us photographs or convention reports which we post along with our own in our Convention Report Pages.
• Star Party Articles or Pictures: Just like convention, we are happy to publish material about our star parties on our web site.
• Astrophotos: Have you taken a astronomical image you are proud of? Submit it to us, we will consider publishing it on our Astrophoto Page. While we especially like to post images taken at Stellafane, this is not a requirement.
• Homemade Telescopes: Do you have a picture and/or an short article about a telescope you have made? We publish these in our Homemade Telescope Gallery.
• 'Stellafane' Foucault Testers: Have you made one of our very popular knife edge testers? We publish photos of these on our our Foucault Tester Page.
• History: Do you have historical pictures or prose about Stellafane, the Springfield Telescope Makers, or related topics? Please let us know, we may be able to incorporate them into our History Pages (We are also interested in acquiring artifacts for Our Museum, please write with details).

Please submit these items (or question you may have about this) via e-mail to the Stellafane Webmaster. By submitting an image or article, you agree implicitly to let Stellafane publish it on the Stellafane web site. We may edit material or crop photographs at our discretion. You will be credited as the author, and retain all other rights to the material. We reserve the right not publish any material that does not fit our current needs or is inappropriate for our web site. Thank you!

Examples of Contributed Items:

After leaving the swap meet and walking to Breezy Hill to have a look at the telescopes entered in the competition, I had a chance to view the sun in white light through two telescopes employing Herschel wedges. One was a refractor, as one might expect, the other a Newtonian that employed...