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Old 23-05-2014, 10:17 AM
astro744
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You can do an optical bench test using either Foucault knife edge or Ronchi grating. You will likely have to remove secondary and/or spider so that the light source is not obscured.

The best method though is a star test and there are plenty of resources online as well as this book: http://www.willbell.com/tm/tm5.htm

If you want a test with a laser interferometer then I think the mirror would have to be removed.
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