Re: [ATM] ATM Digest, Vol 41, Issue 8

[vorblesnak@peak.org]

I think amateurs will move into synthetic materials, both for weight and
performance.  I expect someone to come up with a hard carbon material that
will ultimately be figured into a mirror.

Certainly ceramics will come into the amateur world of optics.

David Davis
Toledo, OR 97391

> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 18:58:53 -0700
> From: "Mel Bartels" <mbartels@bbastrodesigns.com>
> Subject: [ATM] the future of amateur telescope making and amateur
> 	astronomy
> To: "'ATM List'" <atm@atmlist.net>
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> What do you think the future of telescope making and amateur astronomy
> will
> be like?
>
> I'm giving a presentation this summer at ALCON07 and wish very much to
> supplant my ideas with yours.
>
> Mel Bartels
>




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