Astronomy
Astrophotography | Celestial Mechanics | Deep Space Objects | Lab Techniques | Lunar Astronomy |
Planetary Astronomy
| Radio Astronomy | Solar Astronomy | Sundials |Telescopes

topAstrophotography
 

February, 1997. A Picture Perfect Comet
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 

December, 1973. A Cold Camera for Astronomical Photography and Cardboard Segments for Big Paraboloids
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Intermediate; some special skills needed. Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

August, 1969. Color Photographs of the Night Sky Are Made By Refrigerating the Film
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Intermediate; some special skills needed. Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

July, 1969. The Metabolic Rate of Small Animals Is Measured in a Homemade Apparatus
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Beginner to intermediate Danger 2: (Minor injury possible) Utility: 

December, 1965. Deep Sky Photographs with a 35-Millimeter Camera and More about the Homemade Laser
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Beginner to intermediate Danger 2: (Minor injury possible) Utility: 

June, 1956. Concerning the Problem of Making Sharper Photographs of the Planets
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Expert; advanced amateur or professional. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible) Utility: 

June, 1956. Concerning the Problem of Making Sharper Photographs of the Planets
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Expert; advanced amateur or professional. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible) Utility: 

topCelestial Mechanics
 

January 2000. Detecting Extraterrestrial Gravity
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Danger 1: (No Hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1975. Graphs That Predict When Planets Will Line Up with Another Planet or the Sun Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Beginner to intermediate Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 
May, 1974. A Plotting Device for Predicting the Orbit of an Earth Satellite Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 
January, 1969. Simple Ways to Calculate the Orbits of Space Vehicles Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 
October, 1958. Mostly about Ingenious Ways of Studying Artificial Satellites Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 
January, 1958. Mostly about How to Study Artificial Satellites Without Complex Equipment Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 
November, 1955. On the Making of Recording Instruments and a Moving Model of the Solar System Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Intermediate; some special skills needed. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible) Utility: 

topDeep Space Objects
 

February 2000. Gamma-Ray Bursts Come Home
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Danger 1: (No Hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1992. Sighting Cepheid Variables
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 

May, 1992. Watching the Death of a Star
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 

January, 1972. Groups Are Organized to Observe the Eclipse of Stars By the Moon
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Easy; no special skills needed. Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 

January, 1955. About Utilizing the Moon to Occult the Stars and Increase Telescope Resolution
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: Beginner to intermediate Danger 1: (No hazards) Utility: 

topLab Techniques
 

February, 2001. Counting Particles from Space
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Danger 1: (No Hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1997. Catching a Comet By Its Tail
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1970. An Ambitious Observatory Is Built By Father and Son
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

March, 1952. Determining Latitude/Focogram
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1951. Mirror Grinding in the Kitchen, Roger Hayward's Foucault Tester, Mirror Making Instructional Films
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1950. Herschel Wedge Prism/Cutting Wedge Disks
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1950. Focograms
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1950. Mirror Making
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1950. Draper Grinding Machines
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1949. Setting Circles, Testing Mirrors with "Oil Flats"
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1949. A 10" Telescope, Dry-Paper Dry Rouge Polishing, Telescope Mounts on Buildings
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1948. Abrasives, with Focus on Diamond Abrasives
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1947. Operating Draper Machines. Schupmann Telescopes.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1947. More Ways to Work Larger Mirrors. Broadhead's Draper
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1947. Making Thin Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

May, 1947. Mirror Thickness
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1947. Cerium Oxide and Other Polishing Agents.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1947. Porter's Grinding Machine. Inexpensive Mirrors.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1947. The Pencil Test
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1946. Rose Tools
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1946. Profile: Russell Porter. How Polishing Works.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

May, 1946. Casting Lenses or Mirror-Grinding Tools in the Kitchen.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1946. Grinding/Polishing Machine - Continued. More on Pitch Laps.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1945. Another Grinding/Polishing Machine
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1945. Another Method of Making Mirrors, Conclusion
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1945. Another Method of Making Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1945. Making Achromatic Objective Lenses, Concluded
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1945. Making Achromatic Objective Lenses, Continued
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1945. Making Achromatic Objective Lenses
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1945. Testing Optical Surfaces
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1944. Grinding/Polishing Machine, Mirror Testing, Barlow Lenses, Coarse Diffraction Gratings
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1944. Making Optical Flats
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1944. Mirror Grinding Problems/Solutions, Tower Domes, 20" Cassegrainian 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1943. Glass Imperfections, Resin Mirrors? Mirror Tests, Sundry News.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1943. Amateur Telescopes, Mirror Grinding Tips, Schupmann Telescopes
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1943. Grinding Machines, Sundials
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1941. Grinding Machines, Jobs for Telescope Makers
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1941. Telescope Drives. More Mirror Testing Methods.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1941. 20" Mirrors, a Simple Grinding Rig. Diagonal Mirrors 
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1941. A Broken Glass Tool, Spectroscopes, a Grinding Machine.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1939. Avoiding Astigmatism in Mirror-Making. More Mountings for Beginners.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1939. Measuring Angular Separation, Schmidt Cameras, a Chronograph and Mounting Diagonals for Beginners.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1939. Aluminizing Equipment, Strain-Testing Glass, Pitch Lap Manufacture.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1938. Physical Properties of Glass Applied to Mirror Making
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1938. Mirror Grinding Machines
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1938. RFT Cassegrainians, Wax Coating Laps
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1937. Aluminizing Mirrors, Some Knife-Edge Test Devices.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1937. An Evaporation Chamber, Designing Barlow Lenses, Metal Mirrors, Sources of Rouge
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1937. Making Eyepieces, Clyde Tombaugh's Work, Another Auto-Guider, Barlow Lenses, More on the Hale 200".
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1936. Schmidt Cameras, Device for Reading Setting Circles, a Very Small Observatory, a Proposed Telescope Drive.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1935. Working with Small Lenses
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1935. Cassegrainians, the Ronchi Test, Using Sub-Diameter Grinding Tools
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1935. Working with Convex Spherical Surfaces
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1934. Slow-Motion Declination Mount, Polishing Hints, Checking a Mirror's Polish
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1934. Accuracy of the Knife-Edge Test
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1934. More on Automatic Grinding
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1934. Another Automatic Mirror Grinder
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1934. Grinding Machines
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1932. Knife-Edge Tests, Lap Media
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1932. Focograms
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1932. Dangers of Silvering Mirrors
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

January, 1932. Making Mirrors From Pyrex Pie Plates? More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1931. A Mirror Grinding Machine, a "Spark Plug" Telescope Mount
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

July, 1931. Making Objective Lenses
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

January, 1931. Optics and Temperature Problems
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

July, 1929. Mirror Grinding Machines, Seismology?
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

June, 1928. Two New Methods of Grinding and Polishing Mirrors
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

topLunar Astronomy
 

January, 1972. Groups Are Organized to Observe the Eclipse of Stars By the Moon
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1960. Two Amateurs Calculate the Exposure Needed to Photograph a Lunar Eclipse
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1955. About Utilizing the Moon to Occult the Stars and Increase Telescope Resolution
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1954. About Snakes, the Other Side of the Moon and Unusual Telescopes to Follow Rockets
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1949. Observing the Moon, Defraction Gratings, Small Eyepieces, Cassegrainian Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1928. Solar Spectroscopes, Photographing the Moon.
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

topPlanetary Astronomy
 

November, 1985. How Best to See Halley's Comet While It Is in View During the Next Few Months
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: 
topRadio Astronomy

February, 1962. About Two a Radio Telescopes That Were Made By Amateurs
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: EXPERT; ADVANCED AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

topSolar Astronomy
 

August, 1999. Sun of a Gun
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

August, 1990. How to Monitor Ultraviolet Radiation From the Sun
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1990. Sunspots and How to Observe Them Safely
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

March, 1987. Calculating the Distance to the Sun By Observing the Trail of a Meteor
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1972. Advice Is Offered on Equipment and Safety Procedures for a Forthcoming Solar Eclipse
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

January, 1961. An Amateur Makes Spectra of the Aurora and Photographs the Sun's "Green Flash"
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 4: (POSSIBLY LETHAL!!) Utility: 

September, 1960. How a Group of Amateurs Detected Flares on the Sun with Long-Wave Radio Receivers
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1959. A Sundial That Shows How Any Spot on the Earth Is Lit By the Sun At Any Time
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1958. An Amateur Builds a Spectroheliograph to Observe Details on the Disk of the Sun
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: EXPERT; ADVANCED AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

October, 1957. The Surface Details of the Sun Are Revealed By a Small Telescope and Artful Photography
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

January, 1957. About Amateur Observations of the Aurora During the International Geophysical Year
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1955. About the Making of a Coronograph to View the Prominences of the Sun
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: EXPERT; ADVANCED AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

topSundials
 

August, 1990. How to Monitor Ultraviolet Radiation From the Sun
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1981. About Phosphenes: Luminous Patterns That Appear When the Eyes Are Closed
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: 

December, 1980. The Physics of the Patterns of Frost on a Window, Plus an Easy-to-Read Sundial
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1967. How to Make an Electrochemical Cell and Also an Unusual Kind of Sundial
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 4: (POSSIBLY LETHAL!!)  Utility: 

May, 1966. A Rain Gauge, a Fluid Flip-Flop, a Sundial and a Way of Seeing Crystals As They Grow
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1964. Two Devices for Listening in on Underwater Sound, and a Sundial That Tells Clock Time
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1959. A Transistorized Drive for a Telescope, and a Sundial That Keeps Accurate Time
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1959. A Sundial That Shows How Any Spot on the Earth Is Lit By the Sun At Any Time
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1956. On the Scientific Study of Tropical Fish and a Sundial for the Ceiling of a Room
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1954. On the Collecting of Moths and Butterflies, and Some Ingenious and Attractive Sundials
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

September, 1953. About Sundials and the Cyclotron, the Latter Built By a Group of Bold High School Boys
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

September, 1951. Sundial and Calendar in Flask/Dall-Kirkham Tel
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1948. Introduction to the Hobby. Euphonium Reflector, Sundials
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1943. Grinding Machines, Sundials
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1943. Amateur Telescope, Sundials, Eyepieces, Making Abrasives Go Further.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1940. Monk Telescope Makers, Sundials
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

topTelescopes
 

February, 2001. Counting Particles from Space
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Danger 1: (No Hazards)  Utility: 

January 2000. Detecting Extraterrestrial Gravity
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Danger 1: (No Hazards)  Utility: 

February 2000. Gamma-Ray Bursts Come Home
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: Danger 1: (No Hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1972. A Compact Short-Focus Telescope with Spherical Optical Surfaces
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1963. How to Grind, Polish and Test an Aluminum Telescope Mirror
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1963. A Large Telescope for a Home Observatory and a Light Meter for Use in the Darkroom
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

November, 1959. How to Construct a Remarkably Simple But Serviceable Six-Inch Reflecting Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

October, 1959. A Transistorized Drive for a Telescope, and a Sundial That Keeps Accurate Time
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1958. A Refracting Telescope in Which the Main Lens Consists of Only One Piece of Glass
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1955. An Observatory Built By a High-School Senior and How to Construct a Famous Spectroscope
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1954. About Binoculars That Are Out of Line and a Telescope Built By a Group of Schoolboys
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1954. On a Well-Made Refracting Telescope and Testing Airplanes in the Bathtub
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1953. Mainly about the Theory of Color Harmony and A New Book for the Telescope Maker
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1953. About a Portable Terrestrial Telescope and the Enjoyment Chromatography
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1952. Obsidian Mirrors/Telescope Death
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1952. John S. Steward Telelescope
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1951. An Alarm Clock Drive for Portable Telescopes, a Car Wheel Spindle Mounting
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1951. Eliminating Eyestrain From Binoculars
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1951. Sundial and Calendar in Flask/Dall-Kirkham Tel
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1951. Flohr Portable Telescope/Abolition of Edge Diffraction
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1951. Synchronome Impulse Clock/Foucault Test Apparatus
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1951. Combined Simple and Compound Telescopes/Achromatic Brachytes
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1951. A Telescope in an English School/a Johnsonian Telescope with Fixed Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1951. Engineering a Telescope Mount
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1951. Transportable Telescope/Stolle Telescope/Telescope Optics Principles
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1951. Mirror Making and Alignment
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1951. Towards a Giant Telescope
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: 

December, 1950. Schlesman Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1950. Hamilton Terrestrial Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1950. Potpourri of Amateur Astronomy
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

July, 1950. A Portable Springfield Variant Mount
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1950. Observatory Housings, More on Paper Laps
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

March, 1950. Gee Refractor Telescope
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

February, 1950. Spectroscopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

January, 1950. Ulram Refractor
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 2: (Minor injury possible)  Utility: 

December, 1949. Lick Observatory, Maksutov Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1949. Star Cameras
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1949. Measuring and Testing Mirrors
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1949. Johnsonian Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1949. Observing the Moon, Defraction Gratings, Small Eyepieces, Cassegrainian Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1949. Easier Ways to Grind Large Mirrors, Dawes' Limit, Double Star Observing
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1949. Porter's Crater. Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

April, 1949. Death of Russell Porter
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1949. The Hale Observatory
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

January, 1949. Variable Star Observers. Polar Telescope.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1948. Plastic Optics
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: 

November, 1948. Springfield Mountings. Mirror Shadows
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1948. Swiss Amateurs. Barnesite
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1948. Pros & Cons of Different Focal Lengths, the Schaldach Mount. Cassegrain Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1948. Making Simple Eyepieces
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1948. An Extraordinary Amateur Scope
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: EXPERT; ADVANCED AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

June, 1948. Observatory Domes. Polishing Tips.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1948. Introduction to the Hobby. Euphonium Reflector, Sundials
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1948. Portland Observatory. Mahar-Thomas Tester. Reflector Lenses and Materials.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1948. The Hale Telescope, More on Diamond Abrasives
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

January, 1948. The Hale Mirror. British Vs. American Eyepieces & Focus Controls
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1947. Pocket Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1947. Erecting Images with Porro Prisms, an Amateur Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1947. Maksutov Telescopes
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1947. Terrestrial Telescopes, Image Erection, Objective Lenses
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1947. Mid-Difficulty Telescopes. Domes, Houston Beam-Shifter.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1946. Zeiss Mountings
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1946. Mirror Cells and Focusers on 12" Telescopes 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1946. More on Compound Telescopes
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1946. Simplifying the Cassegrainian (Dall-Kirkham)
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1946. Weight-Driven Drives. Silvering. Young Telescope Makers
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1946. Long-Focus Refractors
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1946. Inexpensive Telescope Drive, an Interesting Semi-Portable.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1946. Building Mounts with Junk, Long-Focus Newtonians
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1945. Newton on "Opticks," Early Reflectors
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1945. Binoculars, Porro Prisms, Other Materials for Grinding Tools.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1945. Amateur Scopes, Beginner's Woes, Interrupted Grinding
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1945. Permanent Piers, Spider Diffraction
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1945. Air Currents in Reflector Tubes, More on Optical Testing
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1944. More on Maksutov Telescopes
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1944. Roof Prism Makers
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1944. The Maksutov Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1944. All about Binoculars
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1944. Variations on the Gregorian
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1944. A Collapsible Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1944. A Modified Gregorian for Terrestrial Use, the Death of J. H. Hindle.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1944. Grating Spectrograph
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1944. Temperature Effects, Clock Drives
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1943. Amateur Telescope. Channeling/Cutting Pitch, Gauging Mirror Concavity, Repairing Broken Glass Tools
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1943. Auto-Collimation, the Clark Telescope Makers
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1943. RFT Telescopes, Why Aluminum Doesn't Make Good Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1943. Amateur Telescopes for Education, Setting Circles, Barlow Lenses
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1943. Cassegrain Optical Mathematics
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1943. Collimation of Optical Elements
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1943. Roof Prisms (an Addendum to the Article "a Hobby Goes to War", P. 202f.
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1943. Amateur Telescope, Sundials, Eyepieces, Making Abrasives Go Further.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1943. Amateur Telescopes, Housings, Pitch Lap Materials, Prism Tests.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

December, 1942. The 200" Hale Drive, Protecting Optics From Moisture 
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1942. An Unusual Turret Telescope, Half Silvering, a Simpler Drive.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1942. Metal Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1942. The 200" Hale, Mirror Tolerances, Cassegrains, Domes, Other Pitch Lap Tricks 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1942. More on Spectroscopes
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1942. Amateur Spectroscopes
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1942. An Improved Alt-Azimuth Mount, Making a Synchronous Motor for Your Drive
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1942. Mexican National Observatory's 24" Schmidt Camera, Perils of Short Focal Length Telescopes 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1942. The Macdonald Observatory 82" Mirror, Concluded 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1942. The Macdonald Observatory 82" Mirror 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1942. The 200" Hale Mirror, Concluded 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1942. The 200" Hale Mirror 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1941. Amateur Telescopes, New Printing of Amateur Telescope Making, a New Method of Zonal Testing
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1941. Profile of R. W. Porter, Star Laps, Parabolizing a 12", Controlling Rouge Fineness, Objective Lens Mathematics 
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1941. Semi-Portables, an Automated Star Camera, Finding Out-of-Print Astronomy Books
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1941. Amateur Telescopes and General News. 24" Mirrors, Testing Cassegrainian Mirrors. 
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1941. A German Amateur Telescope, Cutting Pitch, Abrasives, a Clock Drive.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1941. Amateur Telescopes, Quick-Change Eyepieces. Gadget for Mounting a Diagonal.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1941. Amateur Telescopes, an Objective Grating, Amateur Astronomy Related Sculpture.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1941. Schmidt and Wright Cameras
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1940. Boston Amateur Telescopes, Photos of Palomar Mount. Bubbles in Pyrex, Leonardo Da Vinci's Grinding Machines
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1940. Observatories, Turret Eyepiece Holder, a Penetrometer, Fine Abrasives
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1940. Springfield Mountings. Flat Diagonals Vs. Prisms
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1940. Amateur Telescope, Observatories, the Hartmann Method of Testing. From Amateur to Pro.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1940. Monk Telescope Makers, Sundials
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

July, 1940. Refractors, Silvering, Alt-Azimuth Mounts, Other Cooling Media for Grinding
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1940. The Goethe Link Observatory, a New Silvering Technique
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1940. Off-Axis Telescopes, Cassegrainians, a Strobotelescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1940. Making Refractors. a Borosilicate Glass Mirror, a Beginner's Sphereometer, about Rouge
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1940. More Amateur Telescopes. Finding Latitudes. the Gaviola Test for Mirrors. (Beg. Corn. "Seeing")
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1940. A Home Observatory, Measuring Lenses, the Palomar Dome.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1940. Some Amateur Telescopes. Testing Mirrors, Flats, Testing Cassegrain Mirrors. (Beg. Corn. "Semi-Portability") Solar Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1939. An Amateur Spectroheliograph. Alt-Azimuths for Beginners.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1939. More Amateur Telescopes and Observatories
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1939. An Amateur 20" Reflector. Pitch Laps for Beginners.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1939. An Amateur 30" Reflector 
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1939. Some Applications of the Schmidt Principle in Optical Design
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1939. Refractors, Astronomy-Inspired Sculpture, a Polarizing Diagonal and Portable Mountings for Beginners
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1939. Final Figuring of the 200" Mirror. Two Beginner Telescopes. 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1939. A Polypedalian Telescope, Celestial Photography for Beginners, Gratings.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1939. Designing Hershelian Telescopes. Mountings for Beginners.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1938. Portable Telescopes, Profiles of Amateur Telescope Making Authors and Contributors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1938. A Reflex Euphonium Refractor. Ways to Test for Strain in Glass, Diagonal Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1938. A 2500 Pound Telescope, Schmidts, Marking Mirrors. More Amateur Telescopes.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1938. Cassegrainian Spec, RFT Eyepieces, How Much Glass Is Removed While Grinding a Mirror?
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1938. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

April, 1938. More Amateur Telescopes. Dividing Engines, News on 20" Reflectors 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

March, 1938. Domes, a Celestial Globe, Schwartzchild Reflectors, Stabilizing Telescopes with Gyros, Obsidian Mirrors
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1938. Solar Viewing and Solar Telescopes, Telescoptic Levity.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1938. Richest Field Telescopes (RFT)
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1937. More Amateur Telescopes. Accurate Clock Drives, an "Optical Contact"
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1937. Domes and Observatories
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1937. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1937. Barnard Astronomical Society, Elliptical Diagonal Mirrors, Building a Schmidt, More Amateur Telescopes.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1937. Working with 20" Mirrors 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1937. Tribute to W. a. F. Ellison
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

March, 1937. The State of the Hobby. More on the Process of Grinding and Polishing, More Amateur Telescopes, Death of W. a. F. Ellison.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1937. More on the 200". 20" Ribbed Glass Disks.
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1937. A "One Legged" Telescope. Manufacturing Pyrex and Plate Glass. a Drive System with Schematic.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1936. Two Woman Telescope Makers, Another Schmidt Camera. a Forthcoming Book.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1936. Telescope Making Around the World
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1936. More Amateur Telescopes, Pitch Testers and an Observatory.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1936. More Amateur Telescopes, Polishing Hints.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1936. Details of Building the 200". a Project to Observe Jupiter, a Machine for Cutting Setting Circles. 
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

July, 1936. A Newtonian Cassegrainian. Optical Tests Discovered or Improved By Amateurs
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1936. Hempstead Hydrant Mount, "Town Pump" Mount, More on Mirror Making Materials, Helps for Mirror Testing.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1936. McMath-Hulbert Observatory, Spectroheliograph
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1936. Wooden Telescope Tubes. Photomicrographs of Polishing Abrasives and Mirror Surfaces
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1936. Understanding Mirror Aberrations, Mounts.
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1936. New Method of Making Pitch Laps, Figuring Mirrors
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1935. Another Amateur's Observatory, Hints on the Knife-Edge Test, Mirror Figuring Myths
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1935. Organizing an Astronomy Club
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1935. A Pitch-Tester
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: EASY; NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1935. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1935. Coatings Mirrors Using the Evaporation Process, Tips for Working with Pitch
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1935. Unusual Telescope Configurations
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1935. A Sidereastat Observatory
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1935. Mounts, Ronchi Test, Miss America Makes a Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1935. Telescope Rifle Sights, Conclusion
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1934. Telescope Rifle Sights
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1934. Another Gregorian Telescope
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1934. A Young Telescope Maker, Lining Up Optical Parts
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1934. A Telescope Maker's Magazine?
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

March, 1934. The Galileo Amateur Observatory, a Lady Telescope Maker
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

February, 1934. Photocell Automatic Guilder
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

January, 1934. More Amateur Telescopes, the State of Telescope Clubs, Tips on Silvering
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1933. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1933. A Novel Mount-Cum-Observatory, Radius of Zone Measurements, Calculating Focal Lengths
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

October, 1933. The First Amateur Spectroheliograph
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 3: (Serious injury possible)  Utility: 

September, 1933. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1933. More on Anaplanatic Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

July, 1933. Secrets of Ritchey-Chretien (Anaplanatic) Telescopes, Concluded
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

June, 1933. Secrets of Ritchey-Chretien (Anaplanatic) Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1933. Clock Drives and Graduating Setting Circles
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

April, 1933. Portable Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

March, 1933. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1933. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

January, 1933. 3rd Edition of Amateur Telescope Making and the State of the Hobby
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

December, 1932. Amateur House-Top Dome, Another Method of Silvering
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

November, 1932. 6th Annual Stellafane, a Portable Telescope and a Home-Built Dome
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1932. Binocular Telescopes Revisited
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

September, 1932. Observatory Structures
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

August, 1932. Amateur-Build Cassegrainians
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

May, 1932. Telescopes Made By Advanced Amateurs
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: ADVANCED; SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

March, 1932. Telescope Makers; Very Young, Very Old
Cost:$0-100 Difficulty: BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1932. More on Cassegrainians and Their Construction
Cost:$100+ Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE; SOME SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED. Danger 1: (No hazards)  Utility: 

December, 1931. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1931. Cassegrainians, an Observatory Hutch
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1931. The Porter Turret Telescope, Sundry Clubs and Groups of Telescope Makers
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1931. Telescopes Made in Out-of-the-Way Places
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

June, 1931. Telescopes Made By College Professors
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

May, 1931. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

April, 1931. A Water-Clock Drive, Silvered Prisms, Sources of Info on Silvering Mirrors
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

March, 1931. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1931. A Binocular Telescope
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

December, 1930. 12 Inch Cassegrainians, Spectrohelioscopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1930. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1930. 5th Annual Stellafane, the Porter Turret Telescope
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1930. Domes and Other Housings
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1930. Inexpensive Homemade Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

July, 1930. More Amateur Telescopes, Spectrohelioscopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

June, 1930. More Amateur Telescopes, a Note on Amateur Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

May, 1930. Skeletal Vs. Tube Reflector Housings
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

April, 1930. More Amateur Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

March, 1930. Amateur Refracting Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1930. Atmosphere, Telescope and Observer Concluded
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

January, 1930. Young Telescope Makers, "Atmosphere, Telescope and Observer"
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

December, 1929. Merits of Different Apertures
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1929. More Amateur Scopes, Spectroscope
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1929. More Amateur Telescopes, 4th Annual Stellafane.
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1929. More Amateur Telescopes, Profile of W. a. F. Ellison
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1929. More Amateur Telescopes, Microscopy.
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

June, 1929. More Amateur Telescopes and Mounts.
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

May, 1929. Building Observatories
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

April, 1929. Amateur Telescope Mounts
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

March, 1929. Two Telescopes Made By Clergymen. an Invitation to Women Telescope Makers.
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

February, 1929. More Amateurs Share Their Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

January, 1929. Spectroscopes, a Home-Made Clock Drive
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

December, 1928. Solar Spectroscopes, Photographing the Moon.
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

November, 1928. Telescopes Based on 2nd Edition of Amateur Telescope Making
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

October, 1928. More Amateurs Share How the Built Their Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

September, 1928. Report of the "Stellafane" Amateur Astronomy Gathering
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

August, 1928. Homemade Telescope Mountings
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

July, 1928. Three More Homemade Telescopes
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.

May, 1928. Growing Hobby of Amateur Telescope Making, with Some Examples
Cost:NA Difficulty: NA Danger 0: (NA)  Utility: THIS COLUMN IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY.