Re: ATM TM Mags--outdated??

[ab866@freenet.durham.org (ric rokosz)]

Lynne and Larry Manuel writes:
> 
> beck wrote:
> >=20
> > To All,
> > 1.) While the old TM's were great in their day,
> > most of the articles are outdated now.
> 
> Agreed.  The exception, at least, are Bob Kestner's three articles on
> large, thin mirror making.
> 
^ after, not really invaluable, especially given the growing internet ATM
> resources.  Don't forget that Richard Berry's new TM book is coming out
> this fall [or eventually].  All the old TM's certainly make for an
> entertaining read to a TN [T nut].  However, if we consider all the
> side=92.  Nice, but not essential.
> 
> Larry.
> 
> 
>

-Larry
A resource that really ought to be republished is the original set of the 
Maksutov circulars.Now there was a whole bunch of basic atm
info.Will-Bell left out a large chunck of material when they cut it down
to a two book set.Many of the TM issues where nothing but a set of coarse 
photos,the worse of which was issue 5.Berry had a similar problem as Cook 
has now,getting decent articles out on time.(so soon we forget!)You can
add the articles by Ceravolo as now becoming classic as he was the only
one who took the time to produce interferograms for the atm that showed
the actual figure of the optics,especially some really bad Meade
scopes,and a "flat" that stopped Meade from making false claims in their
ads.- 

Ric
Toronto