Re: [ATM] two mirror folded newtonian

["McHatten, Shawn" <Shawn.McHatten@aliant.ca>]

Hi Gary
	We might but our Center does not have a lot of "glass pushers".
Me and a couple of others. Before we go there I'd like to make sure this
folded model is really out of the question. 
	Also if we do that we will not be able to build the dual upper
cage and keep the long focal length that a few of us are still drooling
over. Some of us would have loved to have this mirror in a full
planetary optimized scope (read 8ft newt) but we are compromising with
the needs of the center instead of the wants of a few.

Thanks
Shawn


-----Original Message-----
From: GARY FUCHS [mailto:gary@rcn.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:03 AM
To: McHatten, Shawn
Subject: Re: [ATM] two mirror folded newtonian 

Hello Shawn,

I haven't followed this thread fully so apologize if this has 
already come up. 

A friend has a 12" f8 - a real pain to handle. Would you be 
interested in refiguring the mirror to something faster/shorter 
for a standard Newtonian, or perhaps Cassegrain design if it 
could be done for very little cost?

Regards,

Gary Fuchs



McHatten, Shawn wrote:
> 	Our Centre has recently acquired a 2in thick 12.5in 
f8 mirror.
> We are looking at building a truss tube scope out of it but a 
normal
> Newtonian design will push the Zenith observing height to 
around 8ft.
A
> little high for our liking. I suggested that we look at the folded
> design that I have seen a couple of you working on. 
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