Articles and presentations

	Dobson Slide bearings Physical foundation for dimensioning Dobson slide bearings, including calculated examples.
	Thermal modeling of telescope mirrors Explores various models that estimate the transient temperature gradients inside a telescope mirror, specifically during the cooldown phase prior to the actual use.
	Polishing model This derives a model in excel describing the polishing action for ToT circular strokes with sub-diameter tools. The model is applied and verified in practise.
	Parabolization supported by interferometry Presentation at the Optics day 2019, TNO premises in Delft. It shortly explains the working of a Bath interferometer and DFTFringe, gives a working model for manual ToT polishing and concludes with the application of this during the parabolization phase of a telescope mirror..
	Bath interferometry An introduction to the background, construction and use of a Bath interferometer. While the Foucault test fails to give objective results, Bath interferometry sets the new standard for amateur mirror makers. Thorough evaluation of Foucault test consistency is given in this article by Jan van Gastel.
	Schiefspiegler toolkit A summary of the treaty on two-mirror Tilted Component Telescopes by Anton Kutter. This is presented in the form of a design guideline, used to estimate the dimensions and characteristics of a target system. The results can then be optimized with ray-tracing software. Click for the schief_kit.xlsx and K130F27-anastigmat.len files. A reformatted and corrected version of the original Kutter article can be found here.
	Focal plane illumination An exercise to determine the combined vignetting of secondary mirror and front aperture, leading to a focal plane illumination model.
	A 300mm F/8 Corrected Dall Kirkham Powerpoint presentation presenting the details and status of my CDK project, d.d. 28/Apr/2018.
	Een Planetenkijker Powerpoint presentatie met overwegingen voor een planetenkijker gebaseerd op een 200mm F/7 parabolische spiegel.
	Cell-induced deformation Analysis of the effect of the torque issued by flotation cell elements that are glued to the mirror. In moste cases other than 3-point cells this leads to unacceptable deformation.