From: "Kreig McBride" 
To: "Tom Stokes" 
Cc: 
Reply-To: "Kreig McBride" 


Tom,

One thing you might consider is taking Rogers 8" achomate class at the
Telescope Optics Workshop coming up in March.  This is going to be a one
time offered class for making a large achromats, 8" f/15 doublets. 
Roger is an excellent teacher and extremely knowledable about lenses.  The
three day class is a great opportunity to learn lens fabrication, tool
making, theory, and practical hands on experience.   Consider you will be
in a class of 5
students and one excellent teacher.   I dont know of any other classes
available in the past or future dedicated to such a project.


www.wwu.edu/~skywise/optics.html

Kreig McBride
Bellingham, WA


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Stokes 
To: Roger Ceragioli ; atm list 
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: ATM Refractor Design Webpage Up and Running


>
>Hi Roger -
>
>You have presented an awful lot of technical stuff and
>readers might experience burnout. I think
>you need some real photos of refractors, lenses,
>blanks, cells, tools (e.g. spherometers), and so on.
>The pics need not be discussed in the text, but
>would have a caption instead. Just something to
>stir up the ATM juices.
>
>Tom Stokes
>See http://home.pacbell.net/tstokes
>for some pics of my mirror grinding machine
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roger Ceragioli" 
>To: 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:10 PM
>Subject: ATM Refractor Design Webpage Up and Running
>
>
>>
>> Hello, Refractor Friends.
>>
>> My webpage is up and running, though not complete!  Still, all the
>> chapters contain substantial information.
>>
>> YES, YES, I need to EDIT them!  Don't tell me that!
>>
>> But if anyone would like to have a look and make BROAD suggestions for
>> improvement (NOT misspellings and grammar errors, which I will rectify
>> soon!), I would be grateful.
>>
>> NOTE:  I DO know that some of the ZEMAX graphs contain words and numbers
>> that are almost impossible to read.  I'm sorry about that, but nothing I
>> have tried (enlarging the lettering, different image formats, messing
>> around in Photo Editor, consulting the ZEMAX manual, etc.) will allow me
>> to fix that problem.  So, please don't waste your time telling me about
>> it (unless you KNOW the solution).  I think the graphs are still useful
>> and informative, though a bit irritating.  But I can't find a fix.
>>
>> So, if some of you would like to have a look and make broad suggestions
>> for improvement, then thanks in advance.  Chapter 6 is the least
>> complete, but I'll work on that some more soon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Roger Ceragioli
>>
>

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