Thread: First light - how did you become interested?
View Single Post
  #14 (permalink)  
Old 10-July-2009, 10:25 PM
mike alexander's Avatar
mike alexander mike alexander is offline
Order of Kilopi
  
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Posts: 10,058
Default
Reading science fiction since I could read. One big impression was going out at night to look for passovers of the Echo balloon.

In high school there was a copy of Jean Texerau's book "How to Make a Telescope" in the chemistry lab. I bought an 8" mirror blank and grinding stuff from Edmund Scientific. I remember the first time I got a bit of a polish on it (not silvered yet) and took it outside to look at the moon. Kinda did it.
__________________
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
Reply With Quote