My Personal Equipment
8-inch f/8 Homemade Newtonian
Made Primary Mirror Myself
At Pawnee Grasslands, December 2005
At Rocky Mountain National Park, July 2006
Binocular Mount
It was a Surprise Birthday Present
The Scope My Dad and I Built in 1973 was
Retired After 37 Years of Fun
At Texas Star Party, May 2005
At Crow Valley Campground, March 2006
12.5-inch f/8 Homemade Newtonian
Coulter Optics Mirrors
See How it Got Assembled in the Field
Was Replaced With This Version
in 2010
More About the Building
of
My 12.5-inch Telescope
Equipment I Built and Used to Own
Couch Potato Observing Chair
Binocular Mount I Built
My Mel Bartel's Controller
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