Stathis Firstlight

Stathis-Firstlight

Welcome to the Astronomy and Telescope Making Pages of Stathis Kafalis.

I supply borosilicate glass blanks for telescope mirros, grinding and polishing material.

In the following pages you will find descriptions of my lightweight and compact Dobsonian telescopes, guidelines for making minimalist telescopes for amateur astronomy, making of astronomical mirrors by hand and observing of the deep sky wonders with this scopes.

Aperture can only be replaced by even more aperture
Dark transparent skies cannot be replaced by anything else

Let the long travelled photons fall onto your retina. The best instrument for doing that is the telescope, that you shaped with your own hands.

	Borosilicate Glass Blanks, Grinding and Polishing Material Order Mirror Making: Tips and Tricks (German Text) Typical Mistakes (German Text) Ultra thin 14" Mirror 60 cm Meniscus Mirror 50 cm Edge Correction and Parabolizing Foucault Testers (German Text) Interferometer
	My Telescopes 32" Mirror 24" Kyklopas 17,5" Aristarchos 14" Ultra Thin Mirror 10" Archimedes 10" Travel Dobson 24 cm Quints 17 cm Twins 6" Travel Dobson Other Telescopes Munich ATM- Group Telescopes (German Text)
	Image Gallery Historical Image Gallery Asteroid 207754 Stathiskafalis (2007 ST4) Stathis and the Universe Deep Sky Observing (mostly German Text) Planetarische Nebel von George Abell Superdünne Galaxien des RFGC Tadpole Galaxie UGC 10214 Kugelhaufen NGC 5053 + Hintergrundsgalaxien NGC 70 Gruppe in der Andromeda Großglockner Dobsonfest August 2000 Solar eclipse Chile 2019 + deep sky Bolivia Altiplano (English) DeepSky Artikel im Astrotreff
	Scientific Projects IRIS 80 cm Telescope at Cerro Armazones, Atacama, Chile EL TIGRE 1,20 m Telescope at Observatorio la Luz, Guanajuato Mexiko MONET 1.20 m telescopes at Mc. Donald Observatory Texas and SAAO South Africa STELLA 1,20 m Telescopes at the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife

| Imprint | Privacy Policy | About | .