Ten
Reasons Teeter's Telescopes Should Be on The Top
of Your List...
Including
our industry-first and still
industry-exclusive "Dual
Boundary Layer Cooling Fans" which will allow your
primary mirror to operate at peak performance.
 
Press Releases & News:
July 23, 2010: Comprehensive 14.5" F/4.5 Cloudy Nights Review
May 13, 2010: Teeter's Telescopes New "Truss Ring" Enhances Portability
May 10, 2010: CloudyNights Discussion on 15" F/4.5 Design & Build
April 17, 2010: Teeter's
& Waite Research Team for 20" F/3.5's!
March 8, 2010: PunkAstronomy Interview with Teeter's Owner, Rob Teeter
August 13, 2009: Teeter's
Telescopes Teams with Zambuto Optical Company
Teeter's
Telescopes User Group
Not
only a user group, the Teeter's Telescopes Yahoo!Group
is where we post news, events and happenings here at
Teeter's Telescopes. Should we be able to get our hands
on a one-of-a-kind primary mirror for your next project
or have an upcoming In-Stock scope ready for shipment
those on the group will know first. Please, come share
your observing experiences, equipment experiences and
talk telescope building. We hope to see you there!
Highlighted Customer Comment:
"Well
first light was last night and all I can say is "WOW".
You built me an outstanding scope. I ran the fans for
about 30 minutes and the views just got better and better
as the night went on. Jupiter looked like a pic. Actually
seeing color and cloudbands is something else; even
got to see the GRS in some moments of excellent seeing.
The views are so addicting! My wife said it was money
well spent." - Jaime A. about his new
18" f/4.2 Ultra-Limited-Edition Teeter's Telescope
with 1-5/8" Pyrex Waite Research Primary, Feathertouch
Focuser, ArgoNavis DSC's, ServoCAT Go-to/Track System,
Boundary Layer Fans, etc.
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Reviews...
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 current line of scopes, entitled "Ultra
Limited Edition Scopes," or simply the "Ultra
Limiteds."
Over
the course of our seven years 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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