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Parabolic Mirrors Delivered for Solar Telescope

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SURREY, UK -- Optical Surfaces Ltd. of Kenley, Surrey, has delivered three high-precision off-axis parabolic mirrors to the Big Bear Solar Observatory in Big Bear Lake, Calif., USA. The reflectors will form key focussing components in the adaptive optical system associated with the observatory’s new 1.6-m solar telescope. Three high-precision off-axis parabolic mirrors will become focussing components in the optical system of this solar telescope. Scheduled for completion later this year, the Gregorian solar telescope will be the world’s largest telescope and will enable precise studies of the...Read full article

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    Published: June 2008
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    A group of lenses, or any combination of lenses, mirrors and prisms, so constructed as to refract or reflect light to perform some definite optical function.
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