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Old 02-08-2010, 07:28 PM
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It must be very frustrating to have two 8.4 metre almost perfect mirrors to end up with a Strehl of 1% due to the atmosphere.

Their results look impressive. Could be useful to directly image extrasolar planets.

A quick calculation gives about 325mm diameter area on the main mirror for each actuator on the corrector.

thanks H

Bert
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