From: "Geo" 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:44ac08c7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Be great if this worked

> The proposed starshade, however, would get around this problem by
> diffracting light away from the area close to the star [how it works].

If the shade is any distance at all from the telescope it wouldn't need to
be much larger than the lense on the scope.

Geo.

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