DESIGN ASPECTS OF FUTURE VERY LARGE TELESCOPES (HONEYCOMB MIRRORS).
Research has been carried out on three major difficulties in designing efficient and economic telescopes with 8m f/1 lightweight mirrors. These problems are polishing f/1 aspherics, thermal distortion of borosilicate glass mirror and mirror seeing. Viable solutions to all three have been developed....
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The University of Arizona.
1987
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183998 |