[ATM] Winspot

[artbianconi@blast.net]

With seven SCSI drives a search on my system can take forever so 
I started a new one at night, and included every drive in the 
system! In the morning, "Voila!" I found the missing executable 
that Dave sent! 

Time consuming as it was, I should have done a more thorough 
search BEFORE raising the Help Flag here. Sorry. One benefit of 
having asked for help was my finding a more recent 32 bit version 
of WinSpot.

Not only that, I found files for a whole bunch of different 
telescope types and with a variety of apertures! Folded. Herrig, 
Herschel, Lenyolo, TriSchi and ten more whose names I don't 
recognize.

"Great!" I thought. Then I turned on Win Spot and tried to 
understand what I was looking at in the 6" Scheif, my mind short 
circuited, just like Robbie the Robot from "Forbidden Planet"

Yes Bob,  I had tried reading the file w Notepad. The content of 
that SP file is ASCII and was legible in NotePad, however, while 
I could read it, my limited knowledge of optics makes it of 
little value. I need to reduce the technical jargon to raw 
dimensional values.

I've contacted Dave once more and asked for him to simply strip 
out the geometry of both mirrors and eyepiece for me and their 
spacial relationships. Then I'll simply model them, place them 
where they need to be, tilt them and fix them in space. Then I 
can start building the OTA mechanicals or fixtures around them.

The more I look at the basic geometry of a six inch Schief, 
especially that F/L!, the more I am convinced that it should be a 
carbon fiber open truss. While fiberglass is fine for the vast 
majority of OTA's, that long distance between the eye piece and 
the secondary mirror is going to demand a high order of rigidity.

To all those who responded, Thanks! 

Art Bianconi

From: "Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com>
Subject: Winspot (?) Data file

Did you check to see if it was a text file by opening it with
Notepad? Most of the people that have done raytracing programs
have been smart and done the data file in the text format so that
it can be read and printed out without the need for the program
itself. Bob May http://nav.to/bobmay bobmay@nethere.com NEW!
http://bobmay.astronomy.net

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