Techniques of Observational Astronomy
AST3722C

The Making of Telescopes and Their Mirrors

Description of the making of the Mt. Wilson 100 inch (2.4m) http://www.mtwilson.edu/his/art/g1a4.htm

Pictures of the 2.4m mirror (made of green wine bottle glass) taken after the coating had been removed for realuminizing http://www.mtwilson.edu/vir/100/mirror/100in_mirror.htm

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