[ATM] First Light on First Mirror

[Kurt Clement <kurt.clement@flashmail.com>]

Wow!  I just got in from looking at the moon with the polished but 
unfigured and uncoated 6" f7.5 mirror I have been working on for three 
months.  I am amazed!  I do not have the mount done yet and the scope was 
propped up on a lawn chair, but everything works!  The view was sharp and I 
was seeing craterletts within medium sized craters.  And this with a 
spherical mirror that has the remnants of a central hill still visible in 
the Ronchi test.

Yeah, you can tell this is my first mirror.

Kurt
Nixa, MO

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