That's one star, as seen by 18 unaligned mirror segments. Now, they will move one segment, a little, and see which dot moves. Once they know which segment produced which dot, they can begin aligning them.
Which will take some time to do.
Monday, February 14, 2022
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That's one star, as seen by 18 unaligned mirror segments. Now, they will move one segment, a little, and see which dot moves. Once they know which segment produced which dot, they can begin aligning them.
Which will take some time to do.
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They probably have pattern matching software to speed the process.
ReplyDeleteI hope they don't find themselves exceeding the range of adjustments.
They probably won’t. This thing seems to be exceedingly well designed and engineered.
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