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Old 11-09-2018, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Stonius View Post
So once callibrated (presumably before release) scopes in space never lose their callibration, in spite of temperature changes and movement. Why is that?

I suspect they are engineered specifically for the conditions expected, with correspondingly large budgets... Perhaps they have motorised components to allow tweaking remotely from Earth? (I'd love to have my newts mirrors motorised...)
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