| Featured Scope of the Month - January, 2012 |
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| TT#82 - 20" F/3 "Ridge of Starlight" - Waite Research Primary - Pictured with Gordon Waite (Waite Research), Jeff Decker (Majestic Optical Coatings) and Rob Teeter (Teeter's Telescopes) - TT82 Gallery |
Current Press Releases & News:
 December 19, 2011: TT#82, First Light on an Ultra-Fast 20" F/3!
September 30, 2011: CloudyNights Review of TT#73, 16" F/5
June 12, 2011: PDF of TT#70 Review in ATT Magazine
March 16, 2011: Teeter's 20" F/3.5 "Flagship" Completed
September 16, 2010: Peerless Primary Mirror Cooling at Teeter's Telescopes
July 23, 2010: Comprehensive 14.5" F/4.5 Cloudy Nights Review
May 13, 2010: Teeter's Telescopes New "Truss Ring" Enhances Portability
Highlighted Customer Comment:
"To say I am pleased with the scope would be a vast understatement on my part. I have had the scope out to a 'green' dark site eight times now and each session has been simply amazing! One night in particular was Halloween when I set out at 10pm, planning to stay late to get some M42 views. The Great Orion Nebula actually had a faint green tint to it, this is a first for me...the detail was stunning...I attempted the Horsehead wth a H-beta filter and could easily see it with direct vision, the snout portion showing up with averted vision. On Thanksgiving night I met with a few people, and one friend who has been observing for 40 yrs. stated that the view of the Veil Nebula with a 21mm Ethos and 2" OIII filter was the best he had ever seen it. The scope performs perfectly and is a breeze to set up and pack away. I check collimation after a few hours of observing and at the end of the night to see if anything has moved, and it has remained perfect with no need of adjustments, proving how stable and solid the structure is. I cannot think of anything negative to say about your product, Rob, it was money well spent!" - Jeff H. about his new
16" f/3.7 TT/Sub4 Teeter's Telescope
with 1-1/2" thick Supremax Waite Research Primary.
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Welcome,
and Thank You for Visiting Teeter's Telescopes,
LLC.! Teeter's Telescopes was established in February
of 2002 as a custom telescope accessory shop to provide
quality wooden products to fellow amateur astronomers.
But what began as manufacturing custom-made eyepiece
and accessory cases, grew to include a wide variety
of custom made wooden Truss-Dobsonians of various apertures
and focal lengths. Our "Planet-Killer" scopes,
as they became known, grew in popularity and became
our "flagship" product early on. Our line
of "TT/4.5" joined the Planet-Killers in 2006,
when both lines were then merged in the Spring of 2008
to become our "Ultra
Limited Edition Scopes." Since then we've expanded our product line to include our current Catalog of products which cover just about every aperture from 8" to 27" and every focal ratio from F/3.3 to F/8.
Over
the course of being in business, Teeter's
Telescopes has evolved to meet the ever-changing amateur
astronomy landscape. When our doors first opened, most
of the scopes produced in our shop were of the long-focal
length variety - f/6 and slower. Over the last two years
we have seen a shift in customer desires to faster and
faster scopes of f/4 and even sub-f/4. Our background
in producing long focal length scopes and combating
problems like collimation shift, and producing short
focal length scopes, of late, positions us perfectly
to handle most any custom Truss-Dobsonian project.
View
our Production Log of Truss-Dobsonians Built and Sold
Since 2002
Primary
mirrors in our scopes have included manufacturers the
likes of Ed Beck, Discovery, Terry Ostahowski, John
Lightholder, Carl Zambuto, Steve Swayze, R.F. Royce,
Ed Jones, Galaxy Optics, Pegasus Optics, Obsidian Optics
and Waite Research. In addition, we have produced
scopes with primary mirrors as thick as 2.25" and
as thin as 3/4", and in the three major substrates
of Plate Glass, Pyrex and Quartz.
No
matter your budget or your observing and equipment preferences,
we can produce a scope that meets and exceeds your requirements.
In addition to constructing our scopes around new mirrors
from the aforementioned manufacturers, we also have
the capabilities to build a scope around a primary mirror
that you have already have in your possession, whether
it is an older Coulter, a Meade, an Orion or even a
home-made mirror, we can custom build a scope to house
your primary mirror.
Each
Teeter's Telescope is produced one-at-a-time
in our North Jersey workshop, based upon specifications
agreed upon between us and our customers. Whether you'd
like a 15" f/6 or a 15" f/4, we can do either
to your specifications. Teeter's Telescopes is a full
custom shop with no cookie-cutter templates to constrict
your choice for your perfect observing instrument.
We
pride ourselves on being, quite possibly, the only Truss-Dobsonian
scope manufacturer that is capable of both handling
the apertures, focal lengths and primary mirrors other
scope builders won't, and capable of building more traditional
scopes that will offer views through the eyepiece equivalent
to similar sized scopes from all other manufacturers.
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