Dobson Making

This site is made to help those who wish to build a dobsonian telescope, motorized or not. Some pages take a long time to download because we took the option to publish images of good quality to be able to be used as well as possible. Many thanks to John Lightholder for his great help in translation.

 version française

Pages with a french flag are not yet translated.

updated 04.10.2006

David's 1m dobson

Making a dobson:

Theory

Dobsons, elements to be known (partially translated)

ABC Dobson

Mechanical

Lightweight Dobson 

Astatic supports

Chrysocal levers

lateral supports

Motorization

Dob driver installation (personal webpage)

Servocat

Roboscope

Alternative Dob driver setting

La motorisation à "la française" (site d'Olivier Lobet, Thierry Restout et Cyrille Tessier)

Optical

Optical quality

"Sur un effet thermique observé dans les télescopes à réflexion"

Les têtes binoculaires

La mise en température

Star test  

Storage box

Collimation (Mel Bartels, Nils Olof Carlin)

Problems with Torus mirror (now Optical Mechanics OMI)

Tips and technic: 

Tapping

Gluing with PU

Gluing composite

Making a wooden paste

Polystyrene Cutting

Focuser in PCV

Miscellaneous 

Sky Commander

Links, resources

Dobson gallery

 

 

32" Dobson 

 

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Dobson 400

Dobson 660 de Claude lamotte

 

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Dobson 508mm d'Olivier Ruau

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Dobson 560mm

Lunette "dobson" de 50mm

David's 600mm

Jacques Civetta 465mm fiberglass dobson

 

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Thierry Ruiz 16inch Dobson 

Jacques Civetta's 460 bino

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Dobson 300 de Lionel Reynaud

 

dobson 406 d' André Vidal

 

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Dobson 400 de Guillaume Cannat

(site perso)

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Dobson 406 de Cédric Recalde

(site perso)

 

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Dobson 255 de Francis Tisserant

(site perso)

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Dobson 200 d'Yves Lhoumeau

(site perso)

 

 

Olivier Ruau