This is a new feature for my web site, where I show some of the projects that I have been working on. In some cases you'll see a finished project, but in others you'll see the unsanitized truth as I clean up someone else's mess. Still other entries will be from trips and other random topics that are well "outside the shop", but that I think people might be interested in.
| January 12, 2013 - Mirrors down under |
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| January 20, 2013 - A 42" tuneup | |
| March 8, 2013 - Giant, one-time photo opportunity | |
| March 22, 2013 - Comet Pan-Starrs | |
| April 25, 2013 - A very good telescope |
| April 8, 2012 - An 18" in rough shape, literally | July
1, 2012
- Undercorrection
is not the answer |
| April 23, 2012 - Just outside the shop - faint aurora | July 10, 2012 - Big Blue gets a new 36" f/6.3 mirror |
| May 1,
2012 - Just outside the shop -
tornado! |
Sept. 15, 2012 - Testing a 20" and a 4.0" m.a. flat |
| June 26, 2012 - Not up to my standards - a 16", Part 2 | Nov. 18, 2012 - A 20" f/3.0 and a 30" f/3.0 are born |
| June
28,
2012 - Venus
Transit of 2012 and a side trip |
Dec. 10, 2012 - A 50" f/4 is born |
| Jan. 3, 2011 - Refiguring a 24" | Aug.
2, 2011
- Different tests for
different
defects - a 17.5" mirror |
| Jan. 16, 2011 - An example of deceptive interferometry | Aug.
13, 2011
- Why you should look at
the back
of a mirror |
| Apr.
1, 2011
- Unfortunately NOT an
April
Fool's joke |
Sept.
10,
2011 - Strain testing in the
digital
age |
| May 1, 2011 - Outside the shop | Nov. 18, 2011 - How NOT to pack a mirror (v1.0) |
| May 23, 2011 - Way, way, WAY outside the shop.... on another continent! | Nov.
19,
2011 - How to pack a mirror (my
way) |
| July 28, 2011 - Back in the shop, in a crate | Nov. 22, 2011 - Early Christmas present |
| Aug.
1, 2011
- Different tests for
different
defects - a 10" mirror |
Nov. 27, 2011 - Not up to my standards - a 16", Part 1 |
| Early 2010 - The new shop | Oct. 12, 2010 - 1200 lbs., Part 1: Delivery |
| July 25, 2010 - Refiguring a 25" F/4.2 and a 4.5" flat | Nov. 1, 2010 - 1200 lbs., Part 2: Kind of Blue |
| Aug.
9, 2010
- A
busy shipping day |
Nov. 14, 2010 - Refiguring a 14" |
| Sept.
27,
2010 - One
day, four
different substrates! |