| 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. |
| 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. |