Ten Reasons Why Teeter's Telescopes Should be Tops on Your List!

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SuperGloss Finish - We offer the telescope industry's most durable and attractive wood finish. With our special "finish recipe," you get long lasting scuff resistance and high clarity of the wood surface and grain detail. A must for those who truly appreciate the absolute best woodworking can offer!

Rabet Corner Construction and West Marine Epoxy - Butt-joints and wood glue may be fine for jewelery boxes, but telescopes require a higher degree of rigidity and stability. Rabbet-corners allow for greater surface area of epoxy and wood contact, making our mirrorboxes virtually indestructible. We go one step further and use West Marine Epoxy which has been, and continues to be, the most highly regarded epoxy among boat-builders. Strong enough for boats at sea, surely strong enough for telescopes in the field!

ProtoStar Spiders and Holders - Using the industry's thinnest vane material, ProtoStar spiders and holders yield the dimmest diffraction spikes available from any spider currently available (regarding standard 4-vane spiders). ProtoStar continues to set trends by also employing a clutch-plate making for simpler collimation that stays after your adjustments. These spiders, usually extra cost on top of most manufacturer's prices, are standard on all Teeter's Telescopes.

Choice of Stain Color - Want your scope to be different from the "cookie-cutter" scopes on the StarParty field? Want your scope to be personalized to your taste? You have a choice of three stain colors, not just one. Our Natural stain gives your scope that conservative standard appearance of other Truss-Dobsonian manufacturers, while our Colonial Maple stain goes one step further and a shade darker than the Natural. To enhance the grain pattern of the Baltic Birch, we offer the ever-popular Cherry stain.

Customer Service - With prompt responses to both Email and Phone messages regarding price quotes, equipment performance and general advice, we pride ourselves on our customer service. We also offer our popular "Customer Updates" with JPEG files Emailed to the customers as their project progresses through the many stages to completion. We feel this gives the customer a true connection to their scope from the very beginning and decreases uncertainty of progress throughout the entire build process.

R.F. Royce, Swayze and Stevens Optical - We offer mirrors from the top mirror manufacturers, from 8" through 20" apertures. Customers' observing reports have also confirmed this claim, so when you receive a Teeter's Telescope, there's no need to worry about primary mirror performance. You will easily split double stars, tease festoons and white ovals from Jupiter, follow the Cassini division around Saturn's rings, observe craters within craters within craters on the Lunar surface, pick out the lobes in the Saturn Nebula and follow the delicate tendrils of the Veil Nebula in Cygnus.

Reliable Collimation - Our combination of Moonlite Truss blocks, ProtoStar secondary units and Welded Steel primary mirror cells, our scopes hold collimation with confidence. Usually a quarter turn of a secondary collimation bolt and a quarter turn of a primary collimation bolt are all that is needed once the scope is initially collimated after delivery.

Testing of Each and Every Scope - Unlike some manufacturers whose scopes never have a primary mirror installed prior to shipment/delivery, Teeter's Telescopes tests every telescope before it is certified ready for the customer. We use the scope on no less than two nights of average or better seeing conditions, with magnifications of 30x to 60x per inch of aperture.

Fast No-Tool Set Up - All truss pole locks are 1/4-20 thumbscrews, making for a quick, secure and accurate assembly. No tools are needed for any step of assembly. No dropping allen wrenches, screwdrivers or ratchets on your optics in a Teeter's Telescope!

Boundary Layer Fans - Regarded among amateur astronomers as the single most needed addition when building or purchasing a Newtonian telescope. Your primary mirror acts like a heat-sink and will radiate that heat as the temperature around it drops, making for a layer (a boundary layer) of warmer air right above the mirror. As we know, light acts different in differing temperatures, making for a degradation in image quality at the eyepiece. Teeter's Telescopes will not allow your precision primary mirror to be hampered by such issues. With our Boundary Layer Fans the warm air is blown out the side of the mirrorbox leaving a clear path of ambient temperature air above the mirror. A must have on all Newtonian telescopes!