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Mel Bartel's home page The best resource on the Internet for the amateur telescope maker.
Miata Scope, 10" The original MiataScope. I am amazed that a 10 inch telescope would fit!

Orion Telescopes Great place for medium size telescopes and great equipment
Meade Telescopes and CCD equipment.
Celestron Telescopes
Obsession Telescopes Home of the original, and many feel, best of the BIG scopes.
AstroSystems Home of the TeleKit. This is a beautiful large telescope kit that you assemble yourself.
Protostar Secondary mounts and flocking paper.

Sky and Telescope - Stargazing basics This fabulous group of articles covers everything for the beginning and experienced astronomer alike. This is a good place to start into the astronomy hobby.
Sky and Telescope - Observing Custom made maps of the night sky.
Cloudy Nights Check out the reviews here, they are great!

Chris Schur This is one of the best astrophotography sites anywhere. Chris and I met at EVAC in Phoenix.

Ben Davies telescope and links A fabulous list of links, including every part needed to build a telescope.

Astro-Tom Great web site of a friend from AVAC club in Palmdale, California
SAC - Saguaro Astronomy Club Check out the "Things to View", lots of good lists of objects to find.
EVAC - East Valley Astronomy Club One of the best. Check out Equipment Reviews, Binoviewer Shootout. Also, check out the member web pages.
TAAS - The Albuquerque Astronomical Society My current club. Also one of the greatest astronomy clubs. It includes an ATM group, educational outreach group, great monthly meetings, fabulous star parties and a club observatory.