Re: ATM 8" mirror questions - weight, good sources, mirror cells?

[Stephen Tonkin <astro@aegis1.demon.co.uk>]

Matt Hughes <mhughes@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>2) I'm considering an approximately f/7 primary - what do people think of
>this in terms of both optical quality and mechanical considerations? Seems
>to me that that would allow a fairly reasonable tube length (and hopefully
>somewhat reasonable mirror price as well).

My first was an 8" f/7.3 (also a truss) -- the nice thing about the tube
length was the convenient eyepiece height (for me, anyway -- I am about
5' 10").
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