Re: ATM AstroFest Mirror Making

["Henry T. Van Gemert" <hvangeme@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu>]

See you there, I'l even bring a kid or two to help push.


At 09:30 AM 8/7/96 CDT, you wrote:
>AstroFest Mirror Making --
>
>Val Germann
>Central Missouri Astronomical Association
>
>A group of us from CMAA (myself, Mark Russell, Andy
>Steere, Alan Thompson, Paul Rothove and Steve Hill)
>will be heading up to the Chicago area for AquaFest
>next month.  We will have two barrels with us, one
>of them will have a 12.5-inch blank and tool for the
>public to push around at 320 grit, while the other
>will have our "mirror-in-a-day" project on it.
>
>We're from Missouri, have read Tom Sawyer, and know
>what a kid can do with a fence, a bucket of paint and
>some imagination.  We hope to sign up a couple of
>dozen people to help us smooth, fine-grind and then
>polish out a long-focus, 6-inch sphere that we will
>start out with on Saturday morning and look at Jupiter
>with Saturday night!  At least, we think we will.
>We will make no tests on this piece of glass before
>putting it into the tube assembly.  Shudder.
>
>We will have handouts, signs and mirror-making tips
>to give away to AstroFest attendees, many of whom
>we hope to introduce to glass pushing.  This could be
>REAL embarrassing, folks, but we're going to do it
>anyway.  Wish us luck!
>
>***
>
>
Drive careful,


Henry



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