Friday, June 8, 2007

Old-School Aluminizing on Mauna Kea

This week, the 88-inch primary mirror in the University of Hawaii's telescope on Mauna Kea got re-coated with aluminum. This involved a whole lot of steps, not much in the way of automation because the whole thing was built before I was born, and healthy application of brute force.












 

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