madden,s 5.5 mirror performance

Eason, Dale (deason@msmsmtp.StPaul.NCR.COM)
Wed, 05 Jul 95 15:52:00 CDT

Bob,

I ran your spherical 5.5" mirror through Tex and into Aperture. Aperture says that the transfrer function of your mirror is the same as a perfect mirror 10% smaller than yours. It also shows that 91% of the focused light will be in the diffraction disk.

The Tex program says your mirror is about 1/9 wave.

What does all that mean in terms of seeing? I don't know.

If it was me I would try to figure it. If you try long enough you will be able to get it. However you are very close to 1/10 wave already and Suiter says that there is enough error in reading the Foucault test to not beleive any rating over 1/10.

Dale Eason