Well once again our host has our site down. I've not even been able to call them this time nor does THEIR website come up! Spooky stuff... so we're initiating...
Awesome Mike! I can only imagine what it was like cruising the MW star clouds and dark nebulae with your scope! Did you find figuring the f/2.55 mirror to be...
Howard, ... It was very rewarding - the thought of those views inspired me to build the telescope. I did not get as much time as I had wanted to do this, so I...
The speaker schedule for the star party has been posted on the Chiefland Star Party Group website: www.chieflandstarpartygroup.com www.fallstarparty.com In...
Dear All, thank you to all that answered to my earlier posts. I'm now designing the cell for the 80 cm 4 cm thick f/4 mirror. I'll use a 27 points variable...
Hi Group; I got to use a remarkable telescope last night. It was first-light test of an ultra light 20 inch telescope There is nothing exotic in its...
The mirror cell is an 18 point, plop-figured cell. The one oddity in the cell is the sheet metal sling to hold the thin edge of the mirror. Bob was going to...
... And the CG is noticeably displaced (in the direction parallel to the mirror axis) from the midpoint of the mirror edge. There was an extensive thread here...
Shane et al: As per previous messages, I now have a new setup but still need help. I took the advice of a few of you and bought Carinasoft Voyager 4.5.5 with...
Tim: I tried it real quick before I headed out to work aligning my scope with a rough esitmate for the 2 star alignment. It seems to have worked. Yea!!! Thanks...
Greetings Big Dob group, it has been awhile since I've been here. I wonder if anyone has had an experience on mounting a Newt on a quality GEM. I have a...
Pinched mirror in cell? Rotate 90* and recheck. Bad or pinched diagonal? Replace. Chipped mirror back? Stress induced or relieved by damage, needs regrind...
It seems to me from you long ramble that first you want to know if the mirror is any good. You can see that something is wrong and want to sort out if it is...
Green lasers make excellent teaching tools, but watch the brightness. Most lasers I've owned were "less than or equal to 5mW, the maximum legal limit not...
Green lasers are a great tool to expose sky conditions. Remember, you will only see the beam if there are particulates, or water vapor for the light to...
That should be true, but I can see the beam quite well in the desert in near-zero humidity. Of course, there the dust may be the reflecting medium. But I could...
http://tinyurl.com/ylepl9p As a follow on to my post regarding a ten inch f/6 Optical Craftsmen, I'm posting this link to a "classic telescopes" thread which...
Yeah!! Good point. How can an "ultra light" and 60# mirror have anything in common?? <lol> My customer, Don, tells me it was a mirror from some sort of...
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