Making a 33 cm f/4.8 mirror on the Mirror-o-Matic 6: polishing the surface with a pitch lap
Jan van Gastel's video's
0:00 / 0:00
Making a 33 cm f/4.8 mirror on the Mirror-o-Matic 6: polishing the surface with a pitch lap
32 484 просмотра · 8 л. назад
Jan van Gastel's video's
714 подписчиков
32 484 просмотра · 8 л. назад
After 'super fine' grinding, I moved on to polishing the mirror surface, with cerium oxide. I also tested with Ronchi and Foucault tester for sphericity and quality of the mirror's edge. No hooks on the end of the Ronchi lines and bright diffraction bands on both sides of the Foucault image: so no TDE