[ATM] Astronomical Absurdities

[artbianconi@blast.net]

Every morning I look into a shaving mirror and think of that 
telescope that some one was said to have built last year at 
Stellaphane using a watermelon for a tube!

I've no aspirations of doing anything with a watermellon except 
perhaps eating it but this shaving mirror continues to be a 
distraction. It's an 8 inch diameter and has a F/L of about 18". It's 
thin and appears to lend itself to that threaded bolt technology that 
one member the NJAA played with for bending the mirror.

I have no aspirations of doing anything with this if for no other 
reason than the simple fact that I am over-extended now by other 
substantially more important things.

Still, I'm curious. Has anyone ever attempted to make a reflector 
telescope out of a shaving or make-up mirror? Even as a joke? 

I know this question will generate volumes on why it would never 
work. That's OK but has anyone tried?

Art


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