Thomas Spirock

Thomas Spirock has been a member of the Springfield Telescope Makers, at Stellafane, since 1989. He was instrumental in building both the 13” Schupmann telescope and the McGregor Observatory, at Stellafane, both of which were completed in 1995. He earned a Ph.D. from the New Jersey Institute of Technology working to develop the latest iteration of the solar vector-magnetograph at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in southern California in 2005. During the past several years, he has been applying the “lucky imaging” technique to data collected with both the 13” f-10 Schupmann telescope at Stellafane and the 6” f-15 W&S refractor, the 16” f-10 Mead Catadioptric and the 60” Cassegrain telescopes at Mt. Wilson.