[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

humble pie for tea ,, It dont taste to bad .
It gives you energy for the continuation of the build . . Gav.
Good the see some history emerging .. much more interesting than what is on television .. .
Brian.

Originally Posted by GC - South Aus

Good Evening All,

Well I am going to have to eat humble pie after all, Sydney Swans got up over the Power (well least they put up a decent fight for 3/4's of the game).

My weekend didn't get any better!

On the Sunday I followed Mike's (Iceman's) step by step tutorial in cleaning Newtonian mirrors. Which I must say was easy to read, follow and produced great results. Well would have done until I found that after removing most of the dust and dirt I had a mirror missing quite large amounts of its reflective surface.

So I have now put the OTA back together and will test the mirrors visually once I have an opportunity (which probably won't be for a week or two). So I may now have to get both a new primary and secondary mirror for the six inch family visual OTA. Dependant on first light views/results, the OTA may have to go on the back burner.

Still progessing on with the mount though so stayed tuned all.

All the best and ....

Clear Skies

Gav