RE: [ATM] Wind resistance & golf balls

["mbyorick" <mbyorick@starband.net>]

> To cut resistance golf balls have regular indentations all over. The
> suggestion was that I do the same with my tube.

It would seem that, for the purpose of reducing wind resistance in a
'dimpled' truss tube OTA, one would have to impart a rather rapid spin
to the entire OTA in order to take advantage of the dimples.
Alternatively, one could simply motorize each of the truss tubes such
that they spin individually, which would make manual observing somewhat
easier... 

Mike Byorick

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