Dave's 16 Inch Binocular Telescope Page


 

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Astrophotography page              for some great Astrophoto's taken at Kumeu

Kumeu Observatory Logbook    for updates activities at my observatory

Binoscopes around the world

JMI   -   JMI 16", f5 reverse binocular
Trott6
Trotter
  -   Dave Trott's 6", f6 binoscope
Dave Trotter on Giant Binoculars
Royer   -   Eric Royer's 6", f8 binoscope
Wabash   -   Wabash Valley Astronomical Society 8", f6 binoscope
Bolton   -   The Bolton Group's 8", f6 binoscope
Jurevicius   -   Ray Jurevicius' 8", f6.3 binoscope chair
Lerch   -   James Lerch's 8", f8 binoscope
Schmidt   -   Wayne Schmidt's 8", f8 binoscopes
Swayze   -   Steve Swayze's 12.5" binoscope
Sayre 12.5   -   Bruce Sayre's 12.5", f4 binocular telescope
Trott13   -   Dave Trott's 13", f4.5 binoscope
Milne2   -   Clive Milne's 20", f5 Binocular telescope
Sayre 22   -   Bruce Sayre's 22", f4 binocular telescope
Artemyeff (wmv)   -   Video of Eugene Artemyeff's "Dyno Bino"
Big Binoscopes   Astojoes Binoscope company
Japanese Binos   Juhani Kyyro Japan
Japanese   Mr Matsumoto Japan
Riverside   Riverside Telescope Makers Conference
Retina Wrecka   Dave's 16" Binoscope
Binocular   Binocular telescope conference (go to the introducing equipments then the twin pages) A Must See!
Simons   Rich Simons' 8", f/6 binoscope
Ulli Vedder   Ulli has a nice 10" F5 Binoscope
Jim Lawrence   Jim is the Father of the Binoscope and has forgotten more than all the rest of us have learned

The beginning of my easy to build eight inch bino design (still under construction)

1. The upper tube under construction this part was finished on 6th Feb 2005

2. The Mirror Box under construction

3. The Mirror Cell almost finished.