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from: mbartels{at}efn.org
date: 2003-02-25 21:38:10
subject: Re: ATM Too big, too thin?

From: "Mel Bartels" 
To: "ATM Group" 
Reply-To: "Mel Bartels" 


>>>
What's the biggest 3/4" mirror you know of? (Successful one, that is!  Mel?)
<<<

18 inches is about it.  The depth in the center becomes too narrow for
larger sizes unless you are willing to consider f/8.

On a 20 - 22 inch, f/8 kindof defeats the purpose of a cheap plate glass
scope, since the rest of the scope, ladder, transport, et al, becomes
rather expensive and involved.

Mel Bartels

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