| Steve Swayze Steve Swayze has made mirrors as a hobby since 1977, starting with his own six inch f / 7, then moving up to larger sizes, and making mirrors for other people as well. In 1997 Steve went into business making mirrors for the astronomy community, and set up his company , Swayze Optical, now Swayze Optical , Inc. Steve offers mirrors in the 12.5" to 32" sizes, and refigures existing mirrors as well. Steve's website can be found at home.europa.com/~swayze/ Steve will be assisting with grinding and polishing, and will be offering the Ross null test, for final finishing of the mirrors. |
| Peter Ceravolo |
| Dave Groski Dave has been making mirrors since the mid-70's, starting with an 6" f5.8 from an Edmund's mirror making kit and Sam Brown's "All About Telescopes" as a guide. Since then he's worked on optics as large has 24" in diameter. His scopes have won anumber of awards at Stellafane for both optical and mechanical performance. Dave's current projects include the construct of a spectrohelioscope, a schiefspiegler and writing a book on computer control of telescopes. |
| Dave Lane Dave Lane has been an active amateur astronomer for nearly 20 years. He is a long-time member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC), and is a past-president of its Halifax Chapter. Dave is employed as the Astronomy Technician at the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Saint Mary's University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) where he is responsible for the Burke-Gaffney Observatory and the department's considerable computer facilities. Dave's primary astronomical interests are deep sky observing, telescope building, CCD imaging, astrocomputing, and the related gadgetry. He also operate a part-time business, Nova Astronomics http://www.nova-astro.com, the primary focus of which is the development and distribution of The Earth Centered Universe (ECU), a shareware Planetarium and Telescope Control Program. For developing ECU, Dave was awarded the Chant Medal of the RASC, the highest award for amateur contributions to astronomy in Canada. Dave also hold the distinction, along with Paul Gray and Beverly Miskolczi. of being the first Canadians to discover a supernova (1995F in NGC 2726) from within Canada - this occurring in February 1995. In July 95, Dave and Paul received the RASC's Ken Chilton Prize for this discovery. Dave will be presenting a mini-workshop "Build your own digital setting circles" featuring the Micro-Guider III PC interface. He will also give a presentation "Observing on Mauna Kea -- An Amateur's Impressions". |