Something must have been wrong with the pitch-lap on Friday, since we began today with a strange bump in the middle of the mirror. The picture shows how the shape of the mirror (actually the wavefront, compared to a sphere) changed through today's polishing session. Slowly getting back to a good spherical shape. Hopefully the mirror will be polished out soon and we can start figuring it into a paraboloid.
December 6, 2008 23:53

1. Comment by Make
7/Dec/2008 at 01:42
Normal people don't wanna turn their mirrors into paraboloids, uh?