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Old 15-09-2008, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
Hi Eric

The inside edge of the outer circular rim of my Bahtinov Mask is of a larger diameter than my mirror, so my mirror never “sees” this edge, although it does "see" it's own edge, i.e. the edge of the mirror.

Cheers

Dennis
Thanks Dennis.

On further thought, the diffraction pattern is going to be spread along the slits width wise, not length wise, so the ends probably don't come into play anyway.

Ah, my wife is done with the camera, time to go steal it back!

Eric
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