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Old 12-03-2011, 03:06 PM
AstroGuy
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Better secondary Mirror upgrade to increase resolution?

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has ever thought of upgrading their secondary mirror in a reflector setup to increase resolution?

Considering that the primary error wave specs of your scope's primary mirror is whatever and your secondary mirror error wave specs are whatever.

Would it not allow more resolution and less error if you could find a secondary mirror with error wave specs that are better than the one you have now?

This would definitely work I think especially if the error wave spec of the secondary is less than the primary error wave spec.

for e.g.

If Primary mirror error wave spec = 1/12

and

If secondary mirror error wave spec = 1/12

getting a secondary with error wave spec such as 1/13 to 1/20 would increase resolution, right?


What do you think?



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