Telescope Buying Guide - Aluminizing Telescope Mirror

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Grinding and Testing a Telescope Mirror ... telescope. If you are interested in making a scientific mirror and ... After you buy a kit and figure in the cost of aluminizing your optical ... This means that you put some weight on your mirror, put the mirror on ... home.thezone.net/~dbourgeo/feb/feb-2001-talk.html

Liquid Telescope Mirror ... telescope design plus a an additional large flat mirror, mounted above ... which can save time in grinding and aluminizing a glass mirror, the ... Telescope Mirror. A liquid parabolic mirror which has a continuously ... www.hineslab.com/LiquidTelescopeMirror.html

UH 2.2-meter telescope - aluminizing Proposal Information - Telescope Schedule - Aluminizing the mirror. ... In most telescopes, the mirror is taken to the aluminizing chamber on ... University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope Primary mirror aluminization ... www.ifa.hawaii.edu/88inch/aluminizing.htm

A Short History of Amateur Telescope Making ... mirror. Aluminizing became the standard, leading to aluminizing and ... A gentle monk in California looked through a telescope and said, " ... A very modest mirror by today's standards when 20 inch mirrors are ... www.atmsite.org/contrib/Ward/history/

Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory (MMTO) ... to try aluminizing a mirror in the telescope itself.. The mirror is ... cell -- the structure that supports the mirror in the telescope is ... mirror. Typically, the aluminizing filaments are a couple of (mirror) ... cfa-www.harvard.edu/mmt/mmtpr/071299.html

mirror ... a 100 inch diameter telescope mirror for re-aluminizing and putting it ... Mirror on the Move. Q. How do you move a 9,000 pound mirror around? A ... servicing the mirror of the 100 inch diameter Hooker telescope. This ... www.oldengine.org/members/levans/mirror/

Re-aluminizing Chamber The 16 inch telescope primary mirror is removed from its protective ... The MLO 40 inch primary mirror being prepared for re-aluminizing (Ron ... The Buller 21 inch primary mirror is cleaned with a bit of compressed ... mintaka.sdsu.edu/mloa/chamber/chamber.html

Kits building making homemade telescopes schools amateur Dobsonian byot ... ... 390.00AUS TELESCOPE MIRROR MAKING SECTION 8"(200mm) Mirror blank Tool ... compound Lap compound Aluminizing of mirror Secondary mirror $460. ... d) student notes for mirror making and telescope construction. e) test ... www.telescopes-astronomy.com

Palomar Observatory: Aluminizing the 200-inch Mirror at Palomar Observatory ... mirror cell which is then unbolted from the telescope. The mirror cell ... of aluminizing filmed June, 2005 (~150 mb) Telescope mirrors get a lot ... mirror cell and its mirror is then pushed away from the telescope ( ... www.astro.caltech.edu/palomarnew/aluminization.html

April 1999 Newsletter ... into a telescope mirror, so in 1956 John made his first mirror out of ... Low Cost Aluminizing.... I HAVE just used a company that aluminizes ... mirror grinding demos, telescope displays, and day and evening ... www.atmob.org/news99/Apr99.html

Mirror grinding Or even silver the finished mirror if aluminizing is unavailable or ... telescope mirrors are the cheapest. A decent 6" (150 mm) mirror can be ... Rinse and wipe the mirror dry. Draw a grid on the mirror surface with ... www.scopemaking.com/mirror/mirror.htm

Subaru Topics | Subaru Telescope, NAOJ ... the Subaru Telescope. The primary mirror is on the 9.4 meters mirror ... the aluminizing the primary mirror took place (the white part of the ... on the mirror cell onto the telescope, and have continued to adjust ... www.naoj.org/Topics/2001/0928/index.html

S*T*A*R Astronomy - Telescope Making Links Grinding Your Telescope Mirror Polishing Your Telescope Mirror Stress ... Silvering/Aluminizing. Mirror Resilvering the Bell Jar - Vacuum ... Mirror Cells . Mirror Cells for Amateur Telescope Makers Johan ... www.starastronomy.org/TelescopeMaking/Links/

OASI - Choosing First Telescope Or Binoculars ... telescope. Regardless of how good a telescope's lens or mirror may be ... Aluminizing. depositing reflective aluminium coating on the surface of ... prism or mirror which turns the optical train of the telescope through ... www.ast.cam.ac.uk/

Amateur telescope making - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aluminizing or "silvering" the mirror. *. 3. Telescope construction. * ... Although the finished mirror will work in the telescope without a ... the hollow in the mirror, the mirror maker strokes the mirror-blank ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope_making

Amateur Telescope Makers (ATM) Archive for MAY00 - by thread Re: ATM -mirror aluminizing, Jerry Palmer *Re: ATM -mirror aluminizing ... ATM a string telescope, Mel Bartels. *Re: ATM a string telescope, Ken ... ATM -mirror aluminizing, Skip *Re: ATM -mirror aluminizing, Curt ... astro.umsystem.edu/atm/ARCHIVES/MAY00/threads.html

Information: Telescopes Microscopes Night Vision Binoculars Digital Cameras ... reflecting telescope A telescope which uses a front-surface mirror to ... aluminizing The process of applying a reflective aluminum coating to ... mirror The curved, figured, mirror in a reflecting telescope which ... www.opticsplanet.com/info/glossary.shtml

MMT Observatory ... mirror cell, front-end telescope structure, mirror-aluminizing chamber ... cell supports the mirror in the telescope. In the new MMT mirror cell ... on-site aluminizing chamber over the mirror in the telescope to give ... www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/mmt.html

Lens Recoating ... sputter enough aluminum atoms to coat a nearby telescope mirror or ... mirror as well. 2) Everything I've read about the aluminizing process ... my home built telescope side by side to a store bought telescope, most ... medfmt.8k.com/bronrecoatingsp.html

A HISTORY OF THE MCMATH-PIERCE SOLAR TELESCOPE ... in the telescope and to deliver the mirror to the aluminizing room for ... was reinstalled in the telescope and the Cervit mirror went into ... It is used for periodic re-aluminizing of the telescope mirrors. The ... nsokp.nso.edu/mp/cphistory.html

Journal of San Diego History ... at aluminizing the mirror failed dramatically. The mirror supports, ... Overnight, the great mirror for the 200-inch telescope became the ... Before the telescope could go into operation, the mirror needed final ... www.sandiegohistory.org

The ATM's Workshop - The Matching Ronchi Test ... final verification test on your mirror and send it off for aluminizing. ... The Matching Ronchi Test for telescope mirrors is very easy to set up ... to not only a perfect virtual mirror but also to a mirror with a known ... www.atm-workshop.com/ronchi-test.html

Archives of the finishing.com Hotline, 6000 to 6999 Wants to know how to aluminize a telescope mirror. 6708. Seeks jobshop ... Hot dip aluminizing books & articles. 6043. Improve Our Finishing of ... Refinishing Mirror Housing on Barracuda. 6364. Maintenance of barrel ... www.finishing.com/Letters/archive6000.html

Telescope Construction :: September 2004 The Aluminizing Bell Jar next to the Dummy Primary Mirror Cell (which ... The upright Aluminizing Bell Jar.. The Large Binocular Telescope, with ... Aluminizing Bell Jar (left) and Dummy Mirror Cell (Right) in upright ... medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/september04/september04.htm

et - Full Story ... a reference to the diameter of its mirror) reflecting telescope was ... Fixing the aluminizing plant alone the only one of its kind in the ... The new mirror was installed in July 1997.” The old mirror may have ... www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5053

Stellafane ATM: Main Page This page has formulas for many telescope and mirror parameters. It ... Aluminizing or Silvering *Silvering. *Aluminizing. *Enhanced ... Telescope making is at the heart of the Springfield Telescope Makers ... Description: Simple and proven techniques that most appropriate for the beginner and the novice mirror and telescope makers. Category: Science: Astronomy: Amateur: Amateur Telescope Making www.stellafane.com/atm/atm_main.htm

The MIRA Telescope ... closer mirror to the camera in the Lick 120-inch aluminizing chamber, ... 36-inch telescope was designed by Frank Melsheimer and built by Frank ... The mirror, the first mirror this size made of fused silica, was solid ... www.mira.org/fts0/mira/history/h005z.htm

OPTICAL ENGINEERING PAGE Aluminizing procedure for the 4m mirror *Images of the 4m aluminizing ... for the 1.5m telescope. *Collimation procedure for the 4m telescope at ... The old mirror cover made of 24 petals opening up and forming a ... www.ctio.noao.edu/telescopes/opteng/optics.html

Transport of the Second Magellan Mirror ... box and the cell that supports the mirror in the telescope were loaded ... inside the aluminizing building. Installation in the telescope is ... at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Tucson. The mirror is one of ... www.ociw.edu/magellan/mag2move/

4359. Vacuum deposition/mirror aluminising Hi Simon,. Did you find some information on aluminizing telescope ... Like you I an interested in trying to cobble a homebrew mirror coating ... Amateur Telescope Making Vol. III describes a home sputtering setup ... www.finishing.com/4200-4399/4359.html

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