[ATM] MOM or not MOM

[Francis J. O'Reilly]

Vladmir,

I suppose that you are correct. Maybe I'm just a tad bit lazy. Lately, I 
have not even been pushing glass. I get home at the end of the day 
exhausted. I sit down and watch the Yankees play baseball on TV.

Tomorrow I am going to Henry Draper's Estate again, this time with some guys 
from the anique telescope society to scan some letters from Alvan Clark and 
Brashear to Draper. While his little brother powered grinding machine is 
long gone (the original "Draper" machine) perhaps I will get reinspired to 
resume mirror making activities.

I am in the process of making a large project that involves six optical 
surfaces. I retreived the primary mirror and tool from New Mexico on my 
recent trip there.

I am making a 12.5 inch f/12 Stevick Paul (Yes 150 inch focal length 
unobstructed) that will be used in conjunction with a Czerny Turner 
spectrometer hopefully for research purposes when the last of my seven  my 
kids are grown and I can slow down professionally. (Maybe I can give up my 
bankruptcy and commercial litigation practices and concentrate on the easier 
practice of criminal law).

I am also in the process of making a very large German Equartorial pipe 
mount. Three inch pipe fittings, the thing is a monster. It will be as my 
friend, Allen Hall says, semi portable. If you have a semi, it is portable. 
David Harbour spoke very passionately and persuasively in his well reasoned 
agrument against the design last week when we spoke by telephone, but I will 
not change the design. Hopefully, I will be able to post a YouTube video 
about it in the not too distant future, but I have burnt out two cameras 
making the videos so far.

Has anyone heard from Domenic lately?


Best to all of youse guys and gals.

Francis J. O'Reilly