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Article #3367MIRROR QUALITY and other questions
From: Andrew Roscoe
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 12:34
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 12:34
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I'm in the process of building a large aperture Dobsonian. I am at the point where a decision must be made as to the optical company from which I should purchase the mirror. I am considering four companies, Galaxy Optics, D & G Optical, Pegasus Optics, and Handmade Telescopes, all of which sell a 20 inch mirror for about $2000. My question is does anyone have any experience with these companies, especially where mirror quality is concerned? In the same vein, this telescope is an open truss design and I have read that one's body heat will seriously degrade image quality. I have been considering the use of bubble wrap as a shroud. Is this feasible? Is it practical? Will I still need a black cloth shroud to eliminate stray light? In their advertisements Astro-Physics published testimonial letters describing Enke's division as being easily observed through their 6" apochromatic Starfire telescope. Is this possible? Will I be able to resolve Enke's division with my 20" f/5 Dobsonian?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!roscoe From: roscoe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Andrew Roscoe) Newsgroups: sci.astro Subject: MIRROR QUALITY and other questions Message-ID: <29178@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 4 Jan 93 12:34:26 GMT Reply-To: roscoe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Andrew Roscoe) Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 18