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Space/Science » in reply to re: where do you drop sensitivity, if you have the same size mirrorage?

agreed if we were using linear dimensions. Doug specified square meters.

alcaray — 3/30/2006 5:01:18 PM (archived)

I should have specified units in my post to be clear.

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Challenges in optics for Extremely Large Telescope instrumentation - ljk - 3/29/2006 7:00:07 PM
- I keep thinking that somebody is going to take the optical interferometry ball, and run with it. - alcaray - 3/29/2006 7:21:27 PM
  - Yeah, they should be standard in fact - SDF - 3/29/2006 10:50:07 PM
    - re: Yeah, they should be standard in fact - Doug Ellison - 3/30/2006 10:45:42 AM
      - where do you drop sensitivity, if you have the same size mirrorage? - alcaray - 3/30/2006 4:18:28 PM
        
        re: where do you drop sensitivity, if you have the same size mirrorage? - Doug Ellison - 3/30/2006 9:13:24 PM
        
        re: where do you drop sensitivity, if you have the same size mirrorage? - phil - 3/30/2006 4:47:17 PM
        
        agreed if we were using linear dimensions. Doug specified square meters. - alcaray - 3/30/2006 5:01:18 PM
        
        Resolved Stellar Populations at the Distance of Virgo - ljk - 4/5/2006 3:15:33 PM

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