Re: [ATM] Regular ATM Meetups (was No meeting tonight)

[Dominic-Luc Webb <dlwebb@canit.se>]

Although very young at the time, I attended the Chabot telescope
workshop in 1972 or 1973 and it was not new at that time. There were
pictures on the wall of several telescopes people had already built
there, some did not look very recent. There were several people at
Chabot who clearly had been pushing glass and aluminizing for a number
of years. Interestingly, at that time, not everyone was aluminizing.
My best friend (we were both about 8 years old) also attended that
workshop and silvered his mirror. There were even mirror kits that
included reagents for silvering. Someone named Earl Watts introduced
me to aluminizing, and I chose that. My first was an 8" F/8 pyrex,
my friend's was 6" around F/3 or F/4. Both were successful by the
standards of two 8-year-olds. This was largely due to the expertise
that was already there at that time. And yes, my 8" F/8 is still in
use. I know that workshop to be older than 35 years, albeit, Chabot
itself has moved further up the Oakland, California hills. I would
not be surprised if it is 50 years old or more.

Dominic-Luc Webb


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Richard Ozer wrote:

> The Chabot Telescope Makers meet three hours every week.  Friday night at
> 7:00pm at the Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, CA.  This has been
> ongoing for 30-50 years, depending on whom you ask...
>
> http://www.chabotspace.org
>
> Rich Ozer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Lockwood" <melockwo@uiuc.edu>
> To: "ATMList" <atm@atmlist.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ATM] No meeting tonight
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Oops.  That was meant for the mailing list for my almost weekly
> > telescope making meeting at my house.  Too many mailing lists with ATM
> > as the first three letters....
> >
> > Sorry.
> >
> > But that makes me curious - I wonder how many gatherings of ATMs
> > happen on a semi-regular basis.  I know Gordon Waite has one every
> > once and a while.  Anyone else?
> >
> > Mike L.
> >
> > Mike Lockwood wrote:
> >> I think we'll skip the meeting this week.
> >> Next week we'll plan to pack up Joshi's mirror for shipment to the
> >> coater (he finished the mirror last week).  We should also figure out
> >> what to do with the 10" duct-tape scope.
> >
> >
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