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Re: new-be & mirror
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2006 Feb 28, 11:32 -0800
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2006 Feb 28, 11:32 -0800
I will look in the archives for the mirror thread, but in the mean time can you comment on why the star might look blurry, only when looking through the leveled mirror? I feel truely stimead, I must not be doing something that is common knowlege to the average joe. Star image looks blurry. But only when you view it using the mirrored horizon. HMMMMM. Is the mirror you're using silvered on the side you're viewing the reflection in? Or is it silvered on the opposite side you're viewing the image from? If silvered on the opposite side of the surface you could be getting multiple reflections of the image. Perhaps that is blurring your image. What quality glass is the mirrored horizon(surface flatness/glass impurities etc)you're using?
