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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] is offline
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Default Making a shallow parabolic reflector using hand tools?

David Harmon fired this volley in
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And the reflector focuses all those different wavelengths at the
same distance.


Ayup -- as opposed to a lens which has a different coefficient of
refraction for each wavelength (unless you're dealing with fairly expensive
achromats, which I would doubt would be employed in this sort of
application G).

Lloyd