Stellafane and the Springfield Telescope Makers want to encourage and support the making of amateur telescopes -- it is the foundation of our club and convention. In this section we are pleased to present a number of home-made telescopes. We would be happy to put your home-made telescope on these pages, just send photos and text to the webmaster (see the link in the footer of this page).
You can see many more amateur built telescope on our Stellafane Convention pages, both in the photo gallery sections and the telescope competition sections. You can also see mirrors being made in our Stellafane Mirror Class pages photo albums, and learn to build a telescope from our plans for a Dobsonian Telescope, and pictures of these completed scopes from arround the world in our Builders Photos.
Builders with STM after their name are members of our club, the Springfield Telescope Makers, Inc.
And now, here is our collection of home-made telescopes, sorted by newest entries first. Click the link for full details and often more photos:
by Asif Khan
from India
by Guido Fuhrmann
from Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany
by Guido Fuhrmann
from Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany
by Matt Sztanko
from Essex, UK
by Cyrille de Brebisson
from Rhône-Alpes, France
by Tom Gideon
from Langley, WA
by Salvatore Antonio Spampinato
from Vicenza, Italy
by Kenny Searles from Medical Lake, WA
Added to Gallery 2012-Jul-09by Edward Dean from Nashua, NH
Added to Gallery 2012-Apr-19by Asad Mehmood from Okara, Punjab, Pakistan
Added to Gallery 2011-Jan-27by Norbert Lichte of Schlier, Germany
Added to Gallery 2010-Oct-21by 'Stargazer' Jonny Kinn of Romsås, Norway
Added to Gallery 2009-Jan-6by Seyed Ghasemini of Iran
Added to Gallery 2008-Dec-09by Jim Daley, STM of New Hampshire
Added to Gallery 2001-Jun-25by C. J. Park, VAS, of South Burlington, Vermont
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-28by Thomas Madigan of New York
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-19by 'Diesel' Dave Aucoin of Waltham, Massachusetts
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-18by Rob Nelson, NSAAC, of Massachusetts
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-18by Bob Schmitz
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-18by Julian Shull, ASGH, of Southington, Connecticut
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-18by Joe Castoro of Long Island, NY
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-04by John Vogt of Huntington, New York
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-04by Walter Hamler of Winter Springs, Florida
Added to Gallery 2000-Oct-01by Shane LaPierre of Conneticut
Added to Gallery 2000-Aug-29by John Avellone, NOVAC, of of Alexandria, Virginia
Added to Gallery 2000-Aug-25by John Avellone, NOVAC, of of Alexandria, Virginia
Added to Gallery 2000-Aug-25by Stewart Beveridge of Victoria, Australia
Added to Gallery 2000-Apr-14by Walter Hamler of Winter Springs, Florida
Added to Gallery 2004-Apr-03by Jim Daley, STM, of Ipswich, NH
Added to Gallery 1999-Jun-25by Brent Russell of South Africa
Added to Gallery 1999-Jun-21by Gerhardus Koekemoer
of Johannesburg, South Africa