Re: [ATM] Difference

[Saqib Sajjad <saqibsajjad@yahoo.com>]

i have decided to grind my own mirror now!
thanks everyone for convincing me especially bob may
for his golden words  "Now get to work!" :)

Saqib

--- Bob May <bobmay@nethere.com> wrote:

> A vendor???  That is something that you do yourself!
> I'll note that the flat backed drawing is the one to
> do as you
> just need to carve the hole in the front of the
> glass and polish
> and figure the surface to a nice parabola.
> It is simple magic to take a piece of glass and turn
> it into a
> wonderful telescope mirror.  It should be done in
> the secrecy of
> some place where you have access to clean water but
> you can do it
> almost anywher if needed.
> Remember that the first optical surfaces were done
> in pleaces and
> times when things were a lot more primitive than
> now, even in
> Pakistan today!  You don't need silicon carbide grit
> (although it
> does make the grinding go a bit faster)  Now get to
> work!
> Bob May
> bobmay at nethere.com
> http: slash /nav.to slash bobmay
> http: slash /bobmay dot astronomy.net
> Addresses have been munged tp lee[ spammers from
> bothering me.
> replace the obvious words with the proper character.
> Thank you for your understanding!
> 
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