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Re: [ATM] Gimbaled Secondary mirror (report)

Hi atm,

Wednesday, July 6, 2005, 10:06:46 AM, you wrote:


aho>       FIELD               RMS        STREHL
aho>       FRACT    DEG      (WAVES)      

aho>   X   0.00    0.00                  
aho>   Y   0.00    0.00     0.080060     0.776436

aho>   X   0.00    0.00                 
aho>   Y   0.67    0.40     0.694836     0.000000

aho>   X   0.00    0.00                 
aho>   Y   1.00    0.60     1.554631     0.000000

aho> Again, this would essentially be
aho> imperceptible from perfection.

That's the weirdest definition of perception I've ever heard.
Based on those figures I would say the scope is unusable for
anything other than high magnification on-axis work, and then
only with the secondary in its design position.

-- 

Best regards,
  Richard in the UK



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