astronymonkey

I read the s@n article but felt pretty underwhelmed by the second installment. I have vista as an operating system and it turns out the software isnt compatible with that system so im glad I never made the aeriel between editions. your system looks good though so it will be good to see how it goes, cheers

Hi rich, this is sounding good and is coming along nicely. How many hours do you think you have left until your ready for silver ?

Hi tich, ive got to say I was impressed with yours at sgl9. Also served as a great beer tent on the sunday night Cheers ian

Hi crash, at this stage do you use any grit , or is it tile on glass and nothig else ? cheers

Hi crash, great work. out of interest how did you get the curve on the cement tool , and how did you get it to match the curve of the mirror so well ? cheers

Nice one Crash, its really coming along nicely. Looks like a nice even curve so hopefully the next stage will go just as well. this is gonna be a monster scope once done . cheers

Im tempted to grind one myself eventually, but then again Im also tempted to just buy one from John Nichol. I must admit though that the idea of first light with my own mirror is tempting.

Im gonna opt for 18inch f4, below that will be punishing on eyepieces and the low f ratios would give too big an exit pupil for me. At f4 I could get away with a 22mm eyepiece and still have a 5.5mm exit pupil, with an 82 degree eyepiece this would give me just under a one degree field so would fit the orion nebula in one field.....only just ! mind you, if I see you with the 22 at a star party id be first in the que. cheers

Not bad, so by the time its aluminised youll have a 22inch mirror for about a grand assuming coating costs are a few hundred ? Thats really good value ..... by the way how heavy is that disk , it looks huge, and is it a 2 inch thick one ???? cheers

Looking good and hasnt taken as long as I thougtnit would have taken. hope you dont mind me asking but is there any chance you could give a running total of the spend so far as you go along ? Keep up the good work ! Cheers

The 200p is is a great scope and sgl is fantastic for debating the pros and cons before buying....... but groucho wouldnt be happy.....didnt he say "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION, I dont want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member" : ) Cheers