Stockton
Astronomical Society
ATM
Page
Jeff Baldwin
The
Stockton Astronomical Society holds an Amateur Telescope Makers (ATM) workshop
each month in the garage at Jeff Baldwin’s house at 684 Pioneer Ave. in
Lathrop, California. This is usually done on a Saturday nearest the Full Moon,
and we usually meet from 10 AM until 3 PM. There is no prerequisite skill level
or experience needed, and the attendees range from brand spanking new to old
and experienced. Telescope projects range from around 4” in aperture up to and
including at least 40” in aperture. Some of us are building telescopes, some
are grinding and polishing mirrors, some of us are repairing telescopes, some
of us are watching, learning and just hanging out. There are individual skills
that participants can harvest off of others, and between all of us we usually
solve any problem facing us regarding telescopes and astronomical optics.
Our next ATM session is Saturday, January
14th from 10AM to 3PM. We meet at Baldwin’s Shop at 684 Pioneer
Avenue in Lathrop, CA. My phone is (209) 594-1894.
Please
enjoy the individual links. This site is a work in progress, so check back once
in a while to see if things have changed. These sites are in order that would
produce a telescope mirror, so you can either check them out in order or jump
to whichever topic you need to see.
1 Curve Generating 8 Figuring, Foucault and
Wire Tests
2 Making Tools 9 Ronchi Testing
3 Coarse
Grinding 10
Star Testing
4 Fine Grinding 11
Interferometry (Bath & Spherical Wave) Monochromatic Light Box
5 Pitch Laps 12 Making Flats and
Secondary Mirrors
6 Polishing 13 Flat Testing
Interferometer Light Box
7 Testing for
Astigmatism 14 Cutting Glass Disks
Collimation Wheelchair Telescope
Polar Alignment
Spot Test by John Sherman