Teeter's Telescopes, LLC. - Serving the Amateur Astronomy Community Since 2002!

Ten Reasons Teeter's Telescopes Should Be at The Top of Your List...

	*Dual Boundary Layer Cooling Fans* - Regarded among amateur astronomers as the single most needed addition when building or purchasing a Newtonian telescope. Most telescope owners will keep their equipment inside of their house or will transport it to the field in a heated vehicle. Your primary mirror acts like a heat-sink and will need to radiate the heat it has absorbed as the temperature around it drops, making for a layer (a boundary layer) of warmer air right above the mirror (picture a blacktop surface in the summer and the "waves" of heat you can see radiating from it). As we know, light acts differently in differing temperatures (refraction), making for a degradation in image quality at the eyepiece if star light has to travel through unstable air within an optical tube assembly. Teeter's Telescopes will not allow your precision primary mirror to be hampered by such issues; you are after all purchasing one of our telescopes for its optical precision and performance at the eyepiece. With our exclusive Boundary Layer Fans the warm air is gently scrubbed from the mirrorbox leaving a clear path of ambient-temperature air above the mirror. These fans are a must have on all Newtonian telescopes, yet Boundary Layer Fans are only found on Teeter's Telescopes! *Note: The placement of our Boundary Layer Fans in relation to the primary mirror also allows for the direct cooling of the mirror itself while removing the boundary layer.
	*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 exception clarity to the wood surface and grain detail. A must for those who truly appreciate the absolute best woodworking can offer!
a	*Rabbet Corner Construction and West Marine Epoxy* - Butt-joints and wood glue may be fine for jewelry 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!
	*Custom Design and Manufacturing Services* - Teeter's Telescopes has become the destination for customers looking to have telescopes designed and built that other companies won't consider. Such as: Do you have a 15" f/6 mirror? None of the other builders will touch it? We will and we have! Do you want a 3/4"-thick Zerodur or Quartz primary mirror but none of the other builders will make a structure to house it? We will and we have! Do you have a set of Off-Axis Newtonian optics that you would like a portable Truss structure built around? We've already done that too!
a	*Choice of Stain Color* - Want your scope to be different from the "cookie-cutter" scopes on the Star Party 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 and we've just released our new "Amber" stain which yields a more iridescent finish.
	*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. Furthermore, each phone call is answered or returned by a principal of Teeter's Telescopes - not a receptionist, not a "telemarketer" and certainly not a telescope/astronomy novice.
	*Smooth Optics from Waite Research and Zambuto Optical Co.* - We offer mirrors from the top mirror manufacturers, from 8" through 24" 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, Astrosystems secondary units and precision designed 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. According to our customer John B. from NH, "As before, this truss-tube structure comes together so consistently and repeatably that the telescope was adequately collimated and the red-dot finder was almost perfectly aligned. I did some fine collimation and red-dot alignment anyway, but the repeatability is really nice and more than I had expected from a truss-tube structure!"
	*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. Are you having a SkyCommander or ArgoNavis Digital Setting Circle computer installed on your scope? We'll test that unit as well prior to shipment/delivery!
	*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!