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	<title>Cyde Weys Musings &#187; Telescope Making</title>
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		<title>Progress on my telescope&#8217;s mount</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/12/progress-on-my-telescopes-mount/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the lack of any progress updates here in awhile, I actually have been slowly working on my telescope. I&#8217;ve merely been slowing down because my attention has been diverted by other things (like amateur radio and other miscellaneous projects I haven&#8217;t bothered blogging about). So here&#8217;s an update on my latest progress. I haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror-making breakthrough!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/14/mirror-making-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When last I regaled you with tales of my continuing telescope-making adventures, I had spent four hours working back from an oblate sphere to a paraboloid. Little did I know how much I accomplished in that session. This past Friday, I only had to do about ten minutes worth of polishing before another Foucault test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week ∞ of amateur telescope making</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/10/atm-post-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday at the telescope making workshop I made positive progress (though I&#8217;ve said that many times before). At the end of the session before that, I was left with a raised hill in the center of my mirror following a series of short strokes to correct my rolled over edge. So during this past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the mirror figuring goes ever onwards</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/02/and-the-mirror-figuring-goes-ever-onwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over a month since I last wrote about my amateur telescope making project, so I figure I owe an update to anyone who&#8217;s following along with this unexpectedly long saga. I&#8217;ve still been going to the workshop every week, it&#8217;s just that I haven&#8217;t been making any measurable progress, so I haven&#8217;t had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow and steady wins the telescope-making race</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/24/slow-and-steady-wins-the-telescope-making-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/24/slow-and-steady-wins-the-telescope-making-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amateur telescope making (ATM) workshop wasn&#8217;t open yesterday on account of Thanksgiving, but I still haven&#8217;t written up a progress report yet on last week&#8217;s workshop, so I&#8217;ll go ahead and do that now. But first, allow me to talk about the others in the workshop, because there are some fascinating people there without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A triumphant telescope-making turnabout</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/15/a-triumphant-telescope-making-turnabout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I found the zen in telescope making. I learned to appreciate the journey more than the destination, because I was clearly getting farther from the destination throughout that night. But this past Friday was an utter triumph. Forget the zen of telescope making; bring on the ecstasy of telescope making! This past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The zen of telescope making</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/07/the-zen-of-telescope-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strange thing happened last Friday at the telescope making workshop. I actually made negative progress. Yet I&#8217;m not annoyed by it at all. I think I&#8217;ve discovered the zen of telescope making. Forget the destination and just learn to embrace the process &#8212; there are all sorts of worthy things to be learned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really wishing my telescope was finished right about now</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/28/really-wishing-my-telescope-was-finished-right-about-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/28/really-wishing-my-telescope-was-finished-right-about-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a telescope for the past two months. I&#8217;m in the final figuring stages right now, which entails a repetitive cycle of a few minutes of light polishing followed by a Ronchi or Foucault test to see how the figure has adjusted. I&#8217;m aiming for a perfect paraboloid. I was oblate coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finishing up the polishing of my telescope mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/14/finishing-up-the-polishing-of-my-telescope-mirror/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/14/finishing-up-the-polishing-of-my-telescope-mirror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I continued working on my telescope project. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t have as much time to work on it as I did in previous weeks, because I had an after-work event to attend. But I did reach another milestone: I finished polishing my glass. I know I finished polishing because I couldn&#8217;t see any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth week of amateur telescope making</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/08/fourth-week-of-amateur-telescope-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I continued working on the 8&#8243; f/6.1 telescope that I&#8217;m making by hand. I finished up grinding last week and went onto polishing this week. I took a bunch of photographs to document the process. Polishing requires the use of a pitch lap to polish against. The pitch laps at the workshop are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third week of amateur telescope making</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/09/30/third-week-of-amateur-telescope-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a lot of progress on my telescope since the second week. Just as a recap, I&#8217;m aiming to make an 8&#8243; f/6 Dobsonian telescope, by hand. I&#8217;m still working on the 8&#8243; diameter disk of Pyrex glass that is going to be my primary mirror. The last step is making it reflective by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second week of amateur telescope making</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/09/24/second-week-of-amateur-telescope-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I continued working on my primary mirror at the amateur telescope making workshop in Washington, D.C. I finished grinding the 8&#8243; blank with 60 grit, then 80 grit, then finally 120 grit silicon carbide. Guy, who leads the workshop, must have detected my eagerness to complete my first scope, because he asked me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Galileo on a Friday night</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/09/15/playing-galileo-on-a-friday-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night I went out and had a lot of fun. It wasn&#8217;t the typical kind of fun that most people associate with going somewhere on Friday night, but I daresay I enjoyed it even more. I started building my own telescope (a program put on by the National Capital Astronomers). Before I go [...]]]></description>
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