Group70 is a not for profit originazation.
The 1.8M mirror is complete.
We also have an 18 point floating mirror cell ready to assemble.
Group70's general meeting was held
April 1 (no fooling) at
Le Boulanger (in El Paseo De Saratoga)
The board of directors and officers were elected across the slate. Dan Zuras was elected president for 2009
Astronomical (use) telescopes are generally equatorially mounted. The LAT will use a much cheaper altitude azimuth (gun) mounting and uses transforms to synthesize equatorial motion.
This paragraph is here to give a feeling of scale. The pic. on the right shows the mirror being moved. Regarding the drawing on the left; There is a large open bearing on the right side of the drawing. This is exit part of the optical path, (where the eyepiece goes). A 6 ft. person's face would be at that level.
Contact Group70 by email using the following "names": webmaster, prez2009 at domain.org (domain is @group70.org)
No live link here due to security problems. (e.g. sweeps)
This web page marked up by, Rick Powell (web master)
our backup email address is group70.telescope.project@gmail.com
