[ATM] Testing Techniques

[Jim Burrows]

At 2007-12-29 12:47 -0800, Ken Hunter wrote:

>   The biggest piece of advice I gave all my students over the years 
> involved setting up for the Foucault test.
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>    At the minimum, you need to:
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I'd add, for the "am I done?" test, take multiple readings for each 
zone (i.e., move the KE away, then back) to see how accurate your 
readings are and thus the confidence intervals around the P-V, RMS, 
Strehl, etc., estimates for the mirror.  Then the final second 
opinion, a star test.

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