[jaws-uk] Fw: *** SPAM *** My home made Newtonian scope being used as a helioscope for the transit of Venus
- From: "dorothy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <User@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:25:39 +0100
This why I am fed up with Freeserve, I was just about to stamp on this
email as it was in the Spam box but it is the Chairman of Kent Association
for the Blind, sending me one of his photos I have had Venus and three
more today not tagged as Spam why is this one? I am trying a crash course
in which Planet is which, the Radio Ham is beyond me I fear. some pictures
is Lunar is put to sleep I can \now does this arrive your end yelling
Spam or is it only on my computer, one of you did tell me I cannot take
the Spam tag out once it has arrived.make out, Patrick Moore has a lot
to answer for if you ask me Dorothy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Munton" <g4xms@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Claire Ingram- Gorban" <claire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:52 AM
Subject: *** SPAM *** My home made Newtonian scope being used as a
helioscope for the transit of Venus
> Claire,
> This is just for your interest. It is my 6 inch X 48 inch
> long
> home made Newtonian telescope here being used as a helioscope during the
> transit of venus. We held quite a barbeque party for the occasion at the
> home of my young friend Rob, an osteopath who lives with his grandparents
> in quite magnificent grounds. It was a great day and we had 4 different
> telescopes on show for the party. Here the suns disc is projected onto a
> card at about 7 inches diameter. I constructed the scope in this 8 inch
> diameter plastic sewer pipe in 1968, including grinding and polishing
> the
> primary mirror, from a 6 inch X 1 inch thick pyrex blank. That took 3
> months of 1 hour a time and I read 3 books during the repetitive processes
> of the polishing and figuring the mirror.
> The parabolic figure is true to about 1 tenth of a wavelength and is
> possibly better than the 10 inch professionally made Meade Schmidt
> Cassegrain that I now have. Hope you will be able to see this.......Greg
>
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