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Old 30-03-2012, 09:03 PM
clive milne
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Freo WA
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Originally Posted by DavidU View Post
Very very nice indeed
It's fabulous to have Mark Sutching right here in Aust. It says it all that SDM are very happy to build their fabulous scopes with Sutching or Zambuto optics.If that's not high praise for an Aussie mirror maker I don't know what is.
I have been saving for some time to order a beautiful Sutching mirror myself.
fwiw...I actually rate Mark's mirrors a level above Zambuto's,

He uses a far more sensitive system of metrology to determine the surface profile and doesn't stop until there is essentially no further meaningful improvement to extract from the substrate he is given to work on.

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