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Old 24-06-2010, 04:58 PM
robz (Robert)
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Mylar vacuum mirror

Hi everyone, I have actually spoken to Peter Waddell back in 1989 on his development of the attached ''strechable membrane mirror'' pics.

Has anyone considered trying this?............I know I have considered it many times(but never had the guts to try it) and also have quite a few secrets on how to make it work. This has been collected from various sources over all these years.

It has been used in a smaller form as a telescope mirror and was once presented at the U.K Astronomical society with an apparently enthusistic response.

I know it sounds like vaporware,and was originally designed for 3D imaging, but it really does exist and produces extremely high quality images........good enough for astronomical purposes from my information at hand..................no proof of such however........so who knows?

May be worth discussing as an alternate method to those giant and incredibly expensive glass mirrors?

Comments welcome
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Last edited by robz; 24-06-2010 at 05:10 PM.
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