[ATM] is mirror thermal equilibrium important
Alexis Cousein
al at sgi.com
Fri Dec 1 23:40:28 JST 2006
James Lerch wrote:
> I have a 2" fan blowing directly across each secondary, and it has a LOT
> of air flow, but it still dewed over. Here's a picture:
> http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/UpperFan.jpg
>
> Prior to this years dew heater upgrade, dew would form first on the
> secondary, then by midnight it would be forming on the primaries. I
> have plenty of ambient air flow over each optic. So much so a comment
> was made by a fellow observer one night that "The wind keeps changing
> directions" :-)
Darn! The air must be pretty close to 100% relative humidity. Well, you
have much better seeing than we do, and we can't fix our seeing with a few
resistors ;).
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