take a chuck out of your primary mirror?

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take a chuck out of your primary mirror?

Post by Dave Lillis » Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:14 pm

hi,
This guy managed to salvage a 14" lx200 scope after a 5 square inch chunk was broken off the primary mirror, an interesting read.
http://www.astromart.com/articles/artic ... cle_id=524
He was lucky the mirror was usable afterwards.!
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Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me, but what a way to go. :)

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