Welcome
Where the 19th Century Art of Mirror Making Meets the 21st Century
The Saint Petersburg Mirror Lab is a small band of dedicated mirror grinders and telescope makers living in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. We offer a mirror making class for interested
persons. We strive to create the best mirrors our home brew technology can muster. This includes robotic foucault testing and laser interferometry.
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Fused Quartz Mirror Blanks for Sale
2007-04-23
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Recolabs has around 100 fused quartz mirror blanks for sale. 12.5 inch .8 thick goes for $160 and a 14 inch .8 thick for $200. These are available through ebay.
From one of their auction pages:
"The thermal properties of quartz are 2 times better than Pyrex, it holds a better surface and it is stronger than Pyrex."
Contact Chris at recolabs for more information ctribe@recolabs.com or call 503-661-1163 |
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Eric Finishes his second mirror a 12.5 inch
2007-04-02
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FYI,
Eric finished his mirror today. It tested 1/6th wave or better on all
axes tested. This frees up a table if anyone wanted to work on a
mirror????
RC |
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Mirror Lab Video for Charlie
2007-03-31
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Here is 17 minute video of how Robo Foucault works. Allen and Ralph describe how to test a mirror. Watch it in Internet Explorer (wmv) or href=mirrorlab2.wmv>download it (35MB) |
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Website Update
2007-02-25
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The Mirror Lab website has been updated. There are still lots of things to be done with the website but the majority of pages have been updated. We've added a new feature href=index.php?page=sagitta>a sagitta to focal length calculator. |
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Charlie is leaving for the clear skys of New Mexico
2006-12-23
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| Charlie who is pictured of Charlie polishing his 20inch mirror has moved to New Mexico. He'll have to contend with snow drifts in the winter but at least he'll have some very good viewing. We'll miss you Charile. | |
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Ginger completes an 8 inch Mirror
2006-10-28
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Ginger Tiling has finished figuring her 8 inch mirror. It has an f/ratio of f/5.6 and was completed on October 28th. Congratulations. |
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The first ever mother-daughter team is making a 10 inch mirror
2006-08-26
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Megan sets up the mirror for testing with Robo. |
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2007 Raffle Mirror is finished.
2006-08-26
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The 2007 OBS Rafflescope Mirror was completed. On robo foucault it tested out to 1/15th wave. Of course we now have to build the scope to hold it. |
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Hazel Gehlsen newest Mirror Lab graduate
2006-06-03
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Congratulations to Hazel Gehlsen
who completed an 8 inch f/6
mirror that tested better than
1/9 wave! Hazel is also
the first woman to complete
a mirror in the lab. She did such a good
job on her 8 inch we'd thought we'd get
her to help out on an 18 inch as well. |
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Completed Mirrors For October
2005-10-25
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Allen 12.5 inch annual refiguring
Tom Spano 14.25 inch Black BVC Glass
Joe Colontonio 10 inch (used a special mesh for his pitch lap) |
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