Re: [ATM] Mirror Silvering

["Khail Rosenberg" <mikhail.rosenberg@rosenbergtelescopes.com>]

My suggestion is DON'T USE SILVER!

aluminizing is pretty darn cheap this days, and will last you 4x longer than
silver.. yes silver reflects marginally better, but you need to be very
careful with it...

use aluminum

Cheers!
Mikhail

On 1/19/08, Che Ers <yaar92@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I had a piece of glass silvered from a commercial mirror-maker,
> [as an experiment], but the coating began to corrode almost immediately.
> So how does the silvering done on telescope mirrors escape corrosion,
> even for some time?
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> Regards,
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> Zain
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