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Re: [ATM] solar telescope design with heliostat

Could you post images of your heliostat? The description is quite  
enticing...

Fabio
San Jose, CA

On Jul 11, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Guy Brandenburg wrote:

> Got my hands on a used heliostat, almost (but not quite) completely  
> disassembled. Got printouts on the electronics, which are 22 years  
> old. Want to set up a system to display a nice solar spectrum, with  
> lots of absorption lines, for student visual use, sorta like what  
> they have at the Snow Horizontal Solar Telescope. Appears that they  
> used a very long-flocal-length parabolic mirror as mirror #3 and  
> had 3 other flat mirrors; having fans blowing on the mirrors all  
> the time helped prevent distorion from the sun's heat. Got one or 2  
> flats that might work, but need a decent location. Looks like a  
> very big job. Any thoughts?
>
> Guy
>
>
> Guy  Brandenburg
> Washington, DC
> My home page:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~gfbranden/GFB_Home_Page.html
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