After nearly a decade, the 15" Miatascope web page is back! Alas a decade is a long time and the beloved Miata is now gone. Many of the external web sites referenced here are gone now too. Sorry about the dead links. In my haste to bring the site back, I didn't have time to fix everything and this is mostly a straight upload of the old site that DLS used to host. Hopefully you will still find the information here useful despite that.

My Telescope

I built a 15" Dobsonian telescope. What makes this sort of interesting is that it collapses down so it will fit in the trunk of my Mazda Miata - and still have room for a passenger. So far, it is performing nicely. I am also proud of the scope winning an award for innovation at Astrofest 2002. The page follows work on the scope from the beginning and includes plans and sources of information and materials that I found helpful along the way.

has my thanks for making it possible to bring back my web page.

Thanks also to Avian Munn for turning me on to them, even if they mocks my spartan web page design.

Updated on 11/16/23.