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- From: bill@bessel.as.utexas.edu (William H. Jefferys)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space
- Subject: Re: Hubble's mirror
- Message-ID: <83076@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 15:55:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.213906.886@mrdog.msl.com>
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- Organization: McDonald Observatory, University of Texas @ Austin
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- In article <1992Nov3.213906.886@mrdog.msl.com> dhl@mrdog.msl.com (Donald H. Locker) writes:
- #Now that I know a little about mirror-making, I'd like to hear again
- #how the Hubble mirror contractor messed up the figure of the main
- #mirror. I understand it has spherical aberration, but wonder how
- #[Rockwell?] managed to do that.
-
- The Hartford Courant had a Pulitzer Prize winning
- series of reports that go into gory detail on this.
- They may still have copies available. It's entitled
- "Hubble error: Time, money and millionths of an inch."
- Write the Hartford Courant, 285 Broad St., Hartford
- CT, or call Corporate Affairs Manager Sylvia Levy
- at (203) 241-6431.
-
- Bill
-