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Subject: RE: [OM] KEH repairs/lens cleaning
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:10:07 +1100
Paul wrote:

>
> A friend/colleague worked briefly at Lick Observtory in northern CA, where
> a generation or so back one or their peons went crazy, took a .45 into
> the prime focus cage and started shooting at the main mirror. Not only
> didn't the mirror crack (foot-thick annealed glass is pretty
> close to armor
> plate) but after they painted the little holes black some people claimed
> the seeing had actually improved slightly.
>

Since the idiot fired from the prime focus, I wonder if all the bullets
bounced out parallel to the optical axis ?

...Wayne



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