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 will be Saturday, October
22nd from 10AM until 2PM. We meet at Baldwin’s Shop at 684 Pioneer
Avenue in Lathrop, CA.
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.
Bath and Fizeau Interferometry
Slit Image Test Invented by Bill
Thomas
Making Flats and Secondary Mirrors
Binocular Telescope Mirror Matching
Process