Mike I. Jones
(Carpal Tunnel)
07/03/09 08:14 AM
Re: How Good a Secondary is needed?

OK Rob you got it - a fair swap for your very fine deflection analysis of my 24" tapered blank a while back. Which one of your scopes do you want analyzed? How bout that 43" megascope? .... How far inside focus is your diagonal, and what diameter fully illuminated field?

I have initally assumed a 43" mirror radius of 344" (exactly f/4) and placed your diagonal 29" inside focus. For a 1" diameter fully illuminated FOV the diagonal is 8.25" x 11.668", in-plane offset 0.715", lateral offset 0.506" away from the focuser and toward the primary. Optical analysis next.

Mike



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