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In order to determine whether the telescope is properly focused, look through the eyepiece and look for the shadow of the secondary mirror (black circle) and/or the spider vanes. Continue to rotate the focusing knob until the black shadow shrinks in size until you reach the point where the shadow no longer exists.
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September 26, 2006 The true test of the amateur astronomer is building their own telescope. Grinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process. Instead of lapping the blank by hand,...
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Here is a 25 inch mirror on top of the fine grinding tool with pads applied. And here is the result after 5 hrs of machine polishing starting from a 20 micron aluminum oxide grind. Note that the edge is not as reflective. Polishing pads on a 16.25 inch [41cm] tool. Pad polishing a 30 inch [76cm] mirror.
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AGI can diamond machine ID holes into your mirror blank; ... Quantity discounts are available. Contact us today about our telescope mirror blanks needs! REQUEST A QUOTE GET STARTED. GLASS WHY AGI ABOUT US CONTACT TERMS & CONDITIONS MOBILE. Phone: (585) 458-8040 Fax: (585) 458-8087. PO Box 60467 1335 Emerson Street Rochester, NY 14606.
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2020-5-17George Willis Ritchey built this mirror grinding machine at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay Wisconsin in the late 1890s. Under the sponsorship of George Ellery Hale the machine was used to grind a series of telescope mirrors starting with a 24-inch and then a 60-inch mirror for a telescope initially intended for the Yerkes Observatory
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Mirror blanks are individually tested for internal strain. Plastic protractor inserted under a 6 inch mirror blank during a stress test, to illustrate what stress would look like - if there were any present. All blanks test like this, or they don't ship. We provide mirror blanks from 4.6" to 12.6" in 3/4" thickness, and thicker 1" mirror blanks ...
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Diy Telescope Grinding Machine Outer Space Good Things 10 Things This video shows how to setup a mirror grinding machine for fixed-post grinding, also known as spin grinding or spinning. After setup, you'll see how abrasi... M Russell Johnson Astronomy Telescope Living Room Tv Wall Star Party Making Machine Parrots Filament
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Zacharias Janssen (1580-1638), who lived a few houses away from Lippershey's, suggested that he had found the telescope first. Mirror Grinding Machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The oldest drawing of the telescope is from a 1609 letter sent by Italian scholar Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1535-1615).
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The fabrication of this 15" F4.5 primary telescope mirror began with a planoplano blank. I used my own diamond grinding equipment to generate the rough curve here. After the generation, I poured a steel grinding tool and used #40 silicon carbide abrasive to get the mirror close to the target focal length.
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The test is very simple. Rinse and wipe the mirror dry. Draw a grid on the mirror surface with a permanent marker (<--picture) Add the usual half teaspoon of grit, sprinkle with water and grind for a couple of minutes, rotating tool and mirror often. Rinse the mirror and inspect the grid lines.
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Dual grinding machines deliver a two-step process that combines centerless grinding with grinding between centers, alleviating concentricity concerns. In the Zone Regardless of machine design, the workpiece is guided by its outer surface during centerless grinding. Because of this, roundness can be a concern, especially lobing and triangulation.
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At the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory, our scientists, engineers and technicians have developed innovations in constructing large lightweight mirrors with unprecedented surface accuracy. These mirrors represent a radical departure from the conventional solid-glass mirrors used in the past, producing a new generation ...
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mold for blank before glass melt. 32-inch glass blank cast out of the oven. grinding main mirror. 18-point support for mirror. mirror with wife Joyce and Scott Milligan. polishing lap. polishing mirror. mirror before aluminization. scope support attachment,center support and 18 point support.
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Grinding Machine. Science And Technology. Inventions. Good Things. Quartz. Galaxy Note. Rough Grinding a 20" Quartz Telescope Mirror on the Fixed-Post Machine. Stargazing Telescope. Science And Nature. Life Science. Welcome to Mike's Telescope Workshop. The 12.5 inch mirror being polished. Ron Boid.
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Using various materials, such as German spectacle lenses, mirror glass and rock crystal, and with the help of various technical processes - he had already acquired his own grinding machine for lenses in late 1609 - Galilei designed an excellent telescope. In January 1610, he spotted the first three of what would later become four Jupiter moons.
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Stellafane External Links provide links to related information on Amateur Telescope Making, Mirror Making, Optics, other Astronomy clubs and local area links to the Springfield, Vermont area. RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS ... Grinding Machines A Mirror-O-Matic Machine. 20" Mirror-O-Matic by Atila; 24" Machine by Bill; Automatic Cerium Stirring ...
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This video shows how to setup a mirror grinding machine for fixed-post grinding, also known as spin grinding or spinning. After setup, you'll see how abrasi... The curve on the 20" quartz telescope mirror needs to be deepened from a roughly spherical surface toward parabolic. Gordon Waite shows how to use 7", 8" an...
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The machine is shown grinding a 300 mm mirror.How to build a tachometer:
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Projects. 20 inch ball scope. Hinged Shelter. Ball Scope Tracking Platform. Dual Speed Helical Crayford Focuser (DSHC) A DSHC You Can Make at Home. Past Telescopes. Telescope Making Tools. Grinding/Polishing Machine.
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In addition, a great deal of money will be saved: a finished 24" scope will set you back $7,000; grinding your own mirror and building the mount yourself will cost you $2,000. Amateurs have made mirrors up to 41" by hand. A grinding machine relieves the labor, but is not necessary. A 24" is the largest you can comfortably do solo.
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A 2- ton falling weight drives the machine, while over 1,000 pounds of bronze parts were cast for the mechanism, and almost 3,000 pounds of iron. The force is then transmitted to the drive gear on the polar axis of the telescope, a precision gear like that of a fine Swiss watch, but 17 feet across!
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The systems are capable of grinding the graphite mounting surfaces for 4,680 optical glass segments so that the cylindrical optics modules for NASA's NuSTAR telescope could be assembled. Each multi-function machine incorporates an ultra-precision ABTech designed and manufactured air bearing with direct drive motors and high-resolution encoders.
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And never sacrifice quality by using the PRO Series or eSX 5-Axis CNC lens grinding platform that's right for you. Spheres, aspheres, cylinders, prisms, and freeforms. Glass, ceramics, and hardened steels. Lens sizes from 5-500 mm. We have the right grinding solution for your application. PRO 80 GTS Optical Lens Generator: 5-80 mm Optics
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Dec 13, 2021Roughness in stroke numbers, tool rotation, and disc rotation are all important factors in good mirror grinding. Making a tile tool out of tiles that have been broken with a hammer can help to increase the unpredictability of the game:) Always work with water on your hands! Prior to beginning to grind, sprinkle some water on the grit.
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Mirror Grinding Machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The oldest drawing of the telescope is from a 1609 letter sent by Italian scholar Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1535-1615). Della Porta later suggested that he found the telescope before Lippershey, but died without proving his claim.
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Turning the eye-bolt moves the grinder into and away from the blank to be ground. A c-clamp tightens the arm in place once it is positioned. The whole system works amazingly well considering it was cobbled together from scrap lumber and bits of hardware I could scrounge up in my workshop.
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GRINDING MACHINES - METAL WEB NEWS. TC 9-524 Chapter 5 GRINDING MACHINES Grinding is the process of removing metal by the application of abrasives which are bonded to form a rotating wheel. ... The true test of the amateur astronomer is building their own telescope. Grinding and polishing your own mirrors is a long, arduous process. ...
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The central textbook is How To Make A Telescope by Jean Texereau. This is published by Willmann-Bell, Inc. P.O. Box 3125, Richmond, VA 23235, telephone (804) 320-7016. This book covers just about every aspect of telescope making, and his advise on polishing and figuring is second to none. Willmann-Bell also publishes other books that are useful.
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Mirror-O-Matic grinding machine. Waite Research LLC | Premium Newtonian Primary Mirrors Fine Grinding a 20" Quartz Telescope Mirror. Rough Grinding on the Fixed-Post Mirror Grinding Machine. Hogging the Curve on a 20" f/4.5 Quartz Telescope Mirror. SkyBadger - Mirror Grinding Machine
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gear are all we need to construct this grinding machine. The wooden platform on the turntable is faced true, to permit a wfell-centered reflecting surface to be obtained. The main task of producing a perfect spherical concave surface should be solved by the use of; a grinding tool swinging over the mirror blank like a pendulum. As this would ...
Get priceThe theory behind grinding is that you can remove glass as long as you use a material with a higher hardness. Telescope makers use silicon carbide powders (a.k.a. carborundum) for this task. It is cheap and comes in various size (can range from #36 to #500). To be effective, the abrasive needs to be rubbed against the glass with a lot of pressure.
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Alibaba introduces professional and advanced lens grinding machine for all types of testing, measuring purposes. These lens grilling machine are certified and high precision. ... telescope optics, autocollimator, digital refractometer, ocean optics spectrometer, optical profilometer, optical spectrometer, optical emission spectroscopy ...
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The M-o-M is a marvellous machine due to its simplicity and yet refined design. It is extremely flexible accommodating mirror sizes from 4 inch up to 20 inch (with slight modifications) and can be used for all three steps necessary in producing a mirror. That is you can use it to grind, polish and figure your optics.
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Tags. Gordon Waite is a commercial telescope maker who has made a number of very useful YouTube videos on his grinding, polishing, parabolizing, and testing procedures. I thought some of my readers might be interested in viewing them. The link is here, or else you can copy and paste this:
Get priceMaking a tachometer for a grinding / polishing machine for telescope mirrors . Submitted by florin on Sun, 2016-02-14 18:41. Printer-friendly version. Attachment Size; tachometer2.png ... When making a telescope mirror on the machine, two parameters are important: the rotation speed of the mirror, and the rotation speed of the overarm eccentric
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Machine For Grinding Telescope Specula. W. Forgan. The simple addition to an ordinary lathe for the purpose of grinding telescope specula has been of so much benefit to the author that it was thought, if made known through the medium of the Society of Arts, it might become useful to others interested. Up to about fifty years ago the whole of ...
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