Manufacture of the second 8.4 m primary mirror for the Large Binocular Telescope

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The second 8.4 m primary mirror and its active support system were delivered to the Large Binocular Telescope in September 2005. The mirror was figured to an accuracy of 15 nm rms surface after subtraction of low-order aberrations that will be controlled by the active support. The mirror was installed into its operational support cell in the lab, and support forces were optimized to produce a figure accurate to 20 nm rms surface with no synthetic correction. The mirror was polished on a new 8.4 m polishing machine that gives the Mirror Lab the capacity to process up to four 8.4 m mirrors simultaneously, with each mirror going through a sequence of stations: casting furnace, generating machine, polishing machine, and integration with its support cell. The new polishing machine has two carriages for polishing tools, allowing use of two 1.2 m stressed laps during loose-abrasive grinding and early polishing, followed by final figuring with a stressed lap and a small tool for local figuring.

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