Starlord wrote in message ...
Hay Stone, you missed it totaly, the OWL telescope will NOT, I repeat NOT
have ONE mirror. Much like the other big scopes that have been built in the
last few years, their mirror is made up of MULTI-Mirrors, with each mirror
having a push/pull device behind it and a computer running all of them so
that any changes in the air around them is transfered to the mirrors and
the
image is kept sharp and if the money is rasied, they will build it and it
would be one awesome scope. Oh ya, the next grand space telescope which is
being worked on will have multi-mirrors that will make up the main mirror.

In a nut shell, you tin foil mirror would be only good for setting fires,
not for viewing stars.

Any multi mirror rig is going to have serious distortion, even if you use
computers to try to compensate. A one big mirror with higher quality
aluminum foil could even have less overall distortion just because it is one
mirror. Thousands of little mirrors will have distortion where one mirror
starts and another stops.
I am suggesting:
Very smooth plastic, like on a football helmet, shaped into a big concave
dish, 100 yards in diameter, supported by adjustable aluminum supports [with
turnable sleeves for adjusting the length of the aluminum pipes], with a
fine mist of glue holding a very smooth and highly polished aluminum foil
onto the plastic to form one big concave mirror.
Even though it is only aluminum foil, it could have less distortion than
thousands of disconnected mirrors. All around each small individual mirror
will be distortion in the spaces between mirrors. For thousands of small
mirrors that adds up to alot of distortion.



__________________________________________________ _____________________________
Posted Via Uncensored-News.Com - Accounts Starting At $6.95 - http://www.uncensored-news.com
The Worlds Uncensored News Source