Re: [ATM] Fkex Mirror.

["Bill Kelley" <flex@commspeed.net>]

To "Joe",
No problem Joe.  Just make an optical flat of appropriate thinness so it 
won't break under tension, and another equatorially driven flat to direct 
the light into the flexed mirror. This idea and proposals for unlikely 
short. focal lengths pops up often in my mail. You properly specify a "flat 
piece of glass".
Bill Kelley
Old web site with no new content - www.flexmirror.com


> I was just thinking on this wet and rainy day..
>
> what would happen if you took a 6" diameter flat piece of glass and
> attached it to a cell to flex it into a parabola.
>
> Now it would be a very long focal length one..  I'm thinking of some
> sort of a solar scope like 300 foot focal length,  and just view a
> projected image on a screen.
>
> the total amount of flex from flat, to a 6" f-600  scope would be
> 0.000625  is that too much to flex?
>
> Joe
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