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Old 10-09-2008, 03:29 PM
stephend
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Nope, will not be lubricating the process with sweat of brow, first thing is to make a lens grinding machine.

Starkler's comment is interesting, I read about coma in the context of someone saying it was a sign that the light wasn't hitting the mirror square. Which would be fixable. But then it was suggested it was native to all parabaloid mirrors.
Light from a star at the edge of the field of view isn't striking the mirror squarely, I suppose.
Funny that I've never heard of it before.
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