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Aluminizing the F/9 Secondary

Sunnyside: April 21, 2000

The f/9 secondary mirror was aluminized in the Steward Observatory vacuum chamber at Sunnyside. Gary Rosenbaum, Bill Kindred, and J.T. Williams produced a textbook coating with 92+% reflectance.

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