I am interested in purching a 18" Starmaster with a Pegasus mirror. The seller sent me a copy of the mirror certificate. No where on the certificate does it show a strehl ratio. It has all the other #'s ie: surface and wavefront P-V error, surface RMS error and wavefront RMS also relative transverse aberration. Is there a way of calculating the Strehl ratio from these #'s. The purpose is for comparison purposes for other Starmasters that are available to me for sale. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Strehl ratio
Started by NCSTARFINDER, 07/28/2003 04:47PM
Posted 07/28/2003 04:47PM
Opening Post
Posted 07/28/2003 09:04PM
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Surface RMS error- 1/96.49
Surface P-V error- 1/29.801
Wavefront P-V error 1/14.9
Wavefront RMS- 1/48.245
Relative tranverse aberration 0.5322
How were these numbers obtained? I can not imagaine that any method had enough precision to allow realistic results to such a number of significant figures.
Surface P-V error- 1/29.801
Wavefront P-V error 1/14.9
Wavefront RMS- 1/48.245
Relative tranverse aberration 0.5322
How were these numbers obtained? I can not imagaine that any method had enough precision to allow realistic results to such a number of significant figures.