Tiltable liquid mirror telescopes

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Jul 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000spie.4003..331b&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 4003, p. 331-336, Optical Design, Materials, Fabrication, and Maintenance, Philippe Dierickx; Ed.

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Mercury liquid mirror telescopes work. This ia by now a well-established fact. However they suffer from a major limitation: they cannot be tilted. We have recently proposed that liquid mirrors can be tilted by several tens of degrees, provided one can develop a high-viscosity liquid having a high coefficient of reflectivity. The technology promises inexpensive large telescopes. We present the concept and some of the ongoing work.

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