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Including our industry-first and still industry-exclusive "Dual Boundary Layer Cooling Fans" which will allow your primary mirror to operate at peak performance.

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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!

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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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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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Last Update: July 23, 2010

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