Re: [ATM] A Small Announcement

[Dale Eason <atmpob@yahoo.com>]

You have my thanks and great admiration.  What a great
piece of work.  This should answer a lot of the FAQ we
get.

Dale Eason

--- Bob Lombardi <boblombardi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi, Folks,
> 
> 
> I have a small announcement to make.  Many of you
> use my Resource List 
> to help find telescope making supplies:
> http://www.tfn.net/~blombard  I 
> have just added a substantial webpage that I hope is
> useful to the ATM 
> community, a full-length book.
> 
> The book is called, "Mechanical Design of Telescopes
> for the Amateur" 
> and is on a website link on my Resource List.  The
> direct link is: 
>
http://www.tfn.net/~blombard/book/MechanicalDesign.htm
>  The description 
> on my page says, "A free, full-length online book
> for high-performance 
> telescope design.  Features a mechanical design
> primer, short "At A 
> Glance" summaries of mount families, step by step
> approaches to many 
> tasks, and freeware design software to help." 
> Perhaps a better way to 
> describe this is that it is intended to help you
> build your second 
> telescope.  There are many books intended to help
> you build your first 
> telescope; this one intends to help with the hard
> task of answering just 
> how good it needs to be.  The text there is the
> result of asking the 
> same questions myself and compiling notes since
> 1990.
> 
> I have been working on this book off and on for 16
> years now.  It is 
> time to share it.
> 
> I have recently been soliciting feedback on it from
> Mark Holm, Bob May, 
> and Mel Bartels, as well as some fellow engineers at
> work.  It may be 
> revised, and I envision this as a sort-of "living
> document".  I would 
> like to keep it up to date as a resource for newbies
> to the ATM world. 
> For now, this is to let folks know it's there.
> 
> 
> 
> Clear skies,
> Bob
> W4ATM
> 
> 
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