From: Byron Ader 
To: 'Emery Greg' 
Cc: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: Byron Ader 


Thanks Emery,
Frank Q offered a suggestion as well, I will try both of your techniques. 
I am not going to move any further forward without getting a very clear
picture of what is going on with my mirror.  I have Texereau's book, so I
will look into zonal testing there. I will give you an update with my
results once I have it accomplished.

Thanks again Frank and Emery, I greatly appreciate it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Emery Greg [mailto:greg.emery{at}mohawkcollege.ca]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:57 PM To: Byron Ader
Cc: atm{at}shore.net
Subject: Re: ATM Figuring problems


Hi Byron:

I had a look at the sketches.  I'm not very experienced with looking at the
doughnut shadows.  I have no experience with an f/4.

 My initial guess ( and that may unfortunately be the accuracy of it all )
is that there is a central hill ( you said the knife was from the left,
correct?).  The outside shadows at least look to be in the right areas. 
You really should make a Coude Mask (4 zones or so) and collect the data
that way.  You can then analyze the data and have a more reliable estimate
of the mirror surface.

Personally, I would do the Coude mask and analyze the data before I touched
the mirror again.  You can read about zonal testing in ATM 1, ATM 2 and
Texereau.

Anyone shed more light on this than I can (sorry for the bad pun)?

ttfn
greg

----- Original Message -----
From: Byron Ader 
Date: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:53 pm
Subject: ATM Figuring problems

>
> I just wanted to confirm my test results, I would hate to move
> forward an
> increase my problems.  Has anyone had a chance to review the
> results of my
> Focault test at www.astrothuse.com ?  If you had any feedback, I would
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Byron
>
>

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