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Old 08-01-2018, 09:09 PM
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Wow the price.
Thanks Gary.
So I thought how to build a big scope cheap.
A saterlite made from a shaped ballon a coating if reflective mirror stuff cover with fibre glass ...remove the ballon and there is you primary mirror.
A wonky surface but you make it a diameter of 500 feet an a long focal length by a sat following with the camera ...gear to keep them lined up.
Then softeware to correct anomolies by averaging the image from the little less than perfect mirror surface.
All you have get up there is a ballon something to fill it mirroring and fibre glass..well carbon fibre.
ALEX
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