Hubble’s Primary Mirror has the Wrong Shape
AUG 01, 1990
DOI: 10.1063/1.2810649
When the two principal mirrors of the Hubble Space Telescope were being ground, polished and coated a decade ago, great pains were taken to ensure that their surfaces not deviate from the desired hyperboloids of revolution by more than 100 angstroms. (See the article by C. R. O’Dell in
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