Re: [ATM] Bench star test

["Stephen Koehler" <s.c.koehler@gmail.com>]

Bob,

> Since the page doesn't show what
> the setup is, I'm not sure of what I'm seeing.

The source is a bare laser diode without the collimating lens.  It
makes a cone large enough to cover the mirror.  The source was put on
the same stage as the camera--a web cam without the lens.  It's a real
artificial star test, except that we aren't worried about the large
amount of spherical aberration present in testing a paraboloid at COC,
because the data reduction should take care of that.

Dale is getting some better images than what he posted, before.  I
have spent some time trying to  analyze them, but have not had much
success, yet.  There are some practicalities of actual images that are
harder than simulated images.

-- 
Steve Koehler
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