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Old 12-10-2015, 04:19 PM
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The full maths for the glitter point is in Suiter's "Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes", Appendix F, "Glitter in a shiny sphere"
Summary:
The glitter point in sunlight will be <1/300 the diameter of the sphere - a 25mm sphere gives a 0.076mm (76micron) glitter point.
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