It is very good to hear how our telescope mirrors perform..."Gordon, I bought from Jade S., one of the 20 inch f4.5 quartz mirrors that you produced in 2010 as documented by you on You Tube. I have built a nice Dob with Servo Cat. I wanted to share with you comments I received after using this telescope at our club's star party October 1, 2011. Thanks for producing such a nice 20 inch mirror!...(read on)
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Here is a video "Making a Ceramic Tile and Dental Plaster Grinding Tool for the 20" f/4.5 Telescope Mirror"
Question: If you'd arrange the tile packs 90 degrees one from another - as i see the tile edges in the video are all parallel - would you get better results or it would make no difference?
“Jupiter looked like a pic. Actually seeing color and cloud bands is something else; even got to see the GRS in some moments of excellent seeing. The views are so addicting! Even my wife and daughter's jaw dropped when they saw the moon; they were saying ‘IT'S SO BRIGHT’. My wife said it was money well spent." -- Jaime A. and his 18" f/4.2 by Waite Research
“The views of M42, M45, Jupiter, Andromeda are just glorious! I'll say it here - you are making the best" -- Tom C. and his 17.5" f/4.5 by Waite Research
Here is the 20" F3.6 quartz mirror blank. This beautiful blank is now ready to polish, and will become a terrific telescope mirror. This is a joint project with Rob Teeter of Teeter's Telescopes, so I will be finishing the mirror while Rob works on the telescope body. If you are interested in your "once in a lifetime" telescope, with an increasingly rare quartz primary, take this chance to email and make it yours! gordon@waiteresearch.com
Dear Gordon... A wrap-up on last weekend's Star Party in the Catskills - lots of positive feedback on the scopes up there that I built and you did the mirrors for. The 8" STS stunned a lot of people with the planetary performance on Jupiter once it got high enough in the sky around 2am. It was as if someone had made an etching in color of Jupiter's bands. They were so sharp.
Teeter Telescopes and Waite Research are introducing the Sub4, a large, short Dobsonian telescope delivering high performance that is easy to transport and comfortable to use. The 20” telescope was exhibited at the Teeter Telescopes booth at the 20th Annual Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show on April 16, 2011. NEAF is held at the Rockland Community College, 145 College Rd., Suffern, NY 10901.
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