Yeah guess it's time to clean the mirror on my scope after several years of
AASP and AAMM star parties and all the driving around stirring up AZ dust.
Don't think it needs recoated yet with the "al-yu-min-i-um". Only been 10
years or so.
Jack
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 14:08 -0400, Tom Polakis wrote:
expect to re-coat the 8.4m VLT mirrors every five years or so.
Wow, ten years! When Jenn and I visited Paranal, they said that they
We'll probably keep to a similar (maybe 3-4 year) schedule
in the future. The DCT primary was in storage for some
years before being installed, so the coating was in good shape
at the start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxrRUFlJ_2M
\Brian
