To: atm{at}shore.net
From: Jim Burrows 
Reply-To: Jim Burrows 


At 15:55 2003-05-17 -0500, Jerry B. Hillman wrote:

>This data isn't a quick test reading like the last post was.  This data took
>me 8 hours to get.

---data---

>I ran this thru Tex and got the unbelievable figure of 1/214.1
>I tried six tests but there is stuff there I don't understand. Terms etc

You didn't say whether it was fixed- or moving-source.  Moving-source said
the mirror was, like Hubble, a piece of junk.  BUT, here's the Sixtests'
input file for fixed-source:
-------------------------
Jerry B. Hillman
     16.5      2.5
Foucault
      150
y    X
1.76    0.054
3.55    0.1223
4.60    0.1807
5.45    0.2375
6.18    0.2942
6.84    0.351
7.43    0.4078
7.99    0.465
*
       -1        0
0.000452
      150
INCH
--------------------------------
I'm using Nils Olof's representative zone radii = ave(ave, RMS) and the
average of six readings.

Result:  1.9ñ0.8 nm surface RMS = .998 Strehl!  Agreeing with Tex .

>Now it is time to star test.

Yes, a good idea to get a second opinion, but remember the second doctor
includes the whole system: primary + diagonal, eyepiece, eyeball (floaters,
astigmatism, etc.), collimation, atmosphere, etc.

         -- Jim Burrows
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