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Re: ATM 1st mirror goal - overcorrected

To: atm@shore.net
Subject: Re: ATM 1st mirror goal - overcorrected
From: Mel Bartels <mbartels@efn.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:24:59 -0700
Organization: Eugene Freenet
References: <124BC90441C@det5wg57.barksdale.af.mil>
Reply-To: Mel Bartels <mbartels@efn.org>
Sender: owner-atm@shore.net

Your note that Lumicon's literature recommends overcorrection for their
coma corrector caught me by surprise.  I don't see how deepening the
center of the mirror is going to change coma.  The comatic tail is
formed from light coming from the far side of the mirror, not only the
mirror center.
-- 
With Regards, Mel Bartels    Programmer/Analyst, and amateur astronomer
mailto: mbartels@efn.org     homepage: http://www.efn.org/~mbartels
How To Computerize A Dob:
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~mbartels/altaz/altaz.html

References:
- ATM 1st mirror goal - overcorrected
  - From: "Tom Krajci" <krajcit@det5wg57.barksdale.af.mil>

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