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The 2025 Stellafane Convention
WILL be held July 24-27.

Keynote: Stephen Sekula, SNOLAB.

Photo of Convention

Registration Opens in or Around May 1st

The 2025 Hartness House Workshop
WILL be held July 24th.
Program: ECLECTIC ASTRONOMY IV.
A/C Fixed; Should be Comfortable
Historic Hartness House Photo

The 2026 Stellafane Convention will be held Aug 13-16.

STMs to be at NEAF 2025

Please drop by and join us! We would love to see you at NEAF on April 5-6!

The Spark that Started Convention

A new article taking a look at the events leading up to our very first Convention.

NASA PUNCH mission will contain three TeleVue Optical Lens Assemblies

TeleVue Optics take to space!

Introducing Our 2025 Keynote Speaker

Neutrinos and Dark Matter research in an underground facility, oh my!

 
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Featured Item

New Stellafane Documentary:

Stellafane And Beyond Doc

Stellafane And Beyond


Prduced by STM member Doug Arion and documentary filmmaker Tara Zabriskie, coming Summer 2025. Click to View the Trailer.

Now playing on Vermont Public TV is Tara's Documentary on Light Pollution, 'Defending The Dark', on Thursday Oct 24th at 8PM. Please check the schedule for more information.

Build a Telescope!

Yellow Dobsonian

Complete plans for a
Newtonian Optical Tube
and a Dobsonian Mount.

Build with homemade or purchased
components (or a mix of both).

Includes plans for a solar filter.

 Find what you need on our

Links Page

Our Links Page features thousands of categorized links to telescope making and optics fabrication topics.

 Use our

Mirror Making Guide

to make your own
Newtonian telescope mirror.

Store will reopen again in May

Stellafane Store Closed

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