From: DWilliams1128{at}aol.com
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: DWilliams1128{at}aol.com


What kind of epoxy should I use to glue washers down for a washer tool?  I
have a gearbox and electric motor that I'm using to push the mirror back
and forth over the tool.


I have made a 6" reflector telescope Newtonian before, but I only used
a PVC tube that someone gave me and bought the primary and secondary and
eyepiece holder from Edmund Scientific, but put it all together myself.  
It worked good
for a starting telescope.   And then in the summer of this year my mom bought
me a Meade LX200 10" GPS telescope.  Also I have a CCD camera from
SBIG the ST-237 A camera and I wondered if anyone else has problems getting
it to work together.   Also I am working on making a 20" Newtonian
Reflector telescope and
I'll probably mount it as a Dobsonian at first.   But right now I'm still rough
grinding on my mirror with #80 grit.  I'm making it to about F5.  And I
bought the plate glass mirror blank (porthole glass), the tool and
abrasives from a man named Mel Tolbert who lives in Smyrna Georgia.   Does
anyone else know him?


I'm having trouble hooking my ST 237 A CCD camera to my Meade LX200
10" GPS.  I have a 200 mhz computer that has the software on it
(CCDOPS and CCDSHARP).  Do I need the program CCDSoft?  I think you need
that program if you do color photography.   Can you change the shutter
wheel to a color filter wheel?  I was
using CCDOPS and had the telescope pointing at Vega and then I got a Peak
value of about 32,000 something, but the image on the screen was a white
round circle.  I heard that you could use a piece of opaque cardboard with
two holes in it over the front of the telescope to use as a focusing aid.  
I love you
Chami.

David Williams
dwilliams1128{at}aol.com

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