Eric wrote:
I had a thought - dangerous i know - what if you made a large parabolic
frame out of something like wood (you choose). Then you bought a few large
household mirrors and cut small round sections out of them and pasted them
onto the wood frame. Would you then have yourself a larger effective mirror
on the cheap? Would it work?
Eric
Take a look at this gamma ray telescope, it's 10 meters and not wood.
http://jelley.wustl.edu/Pages/images+hopkins.html