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My Optics Business Page (Loptics.com) My ATM publications and presentations |
Who am I? My engineering work and publications, etc. |
Telescope Making*TELESCOPES PAGE*How I got started in ATM Optical EquipmentPitch tester, Strain testing setup, Mirror test stands, Spherometers,Slitless Foucault testers, Interference test setup, Small grinding machine, Large grinding machine Optical Articles, Tables, etc.Figuring with a full-size lapOblate spheres and how to fix them A Tale of Four Flats Testing a 6" x 0.8" quartz blank Foucault Testing Hall of Shame/Fame Cassegrain design equations Mirrors I have made (quite out of date) TABLE of dimensional conversions TABLE of Newtonian secondary sizes |
Other Articles, FeaturesWinter Star Party 2008 - A wonderful trip to FloridaOkie-Tex 2007 - The darkest place I've been with a telescope Prairie Skies 2007 - Beautiful weather and a nice crowd IFSP 2007 - The Indiana Family Star Party - fun event, great people IDSSP 2006 - The Illinois Dark Skies Star Party - good skies in IL! Prairie Skies 2006 - Always a nice event, getting better every year Astrofest 2005 - an ATM's report and personal opinions Prairie Skies 2005 - Camp Shaw continues to host a great star party! Mirror making class: 2003 - 2004 - students hard at work Dave Moore's Planetary Images - a planetary Cassegrain in action. My Light Pollution Page - My city wastes too much energy! Links & Misc.My favorite ATM LINKSNOTE: These pages were posted before I became a professional optician, and contain information about telescopes and projects I have been involved with, as well as some articles that I have written which may be helpful in your mirror-making projects. The web address under which they were originally hosted has become unavailable to me, so they are now hosted here. I hope you find them useful. Some may be out of date, and for that I apologize. |