We have coated many amateur telescope mirrors for John Dobson of the Sidewalk Astronomers and
for the Telescope Makers Workshop at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland. We do some commercial coating now and
then. Our coating is aluminum with silicon monoxide over-coating. In the last year
more than half our work has been re-coating old telescope mirrors.
Building a
Telescope The program includes mirror testing methods,
basic optics and wave theory of optics. The program is supplied on a CD disk
which can be browsed with the Safari Browser, the Microsoft Internet Explorer, the Firefox
Browser or any general purpose browser.
Telescope making C/D, including mailing, $5.
